[linux-help] Re: Perl/CGI Question

["Jeremy King" <jmking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You aren't supposed to ask really hard questions.

I don't know how this is done.  I suppose that one *very* klugy solution
might be to name your cgi script with the name that you want the downloaded
file to have.  This will probably not work, since the file type you are
trying to download is probably not a permitted file type in your cgi-bin
directory.  A better solution might be to find someone who knows what they
are talking about...  Let me know if you find a solution--I would really
like to hear it.  In fact, I'll probably need to do this very thing at some
point in the future.  Perhaps there is some way to set the file name in the
http header?  I suppose I should run some queries on google...

Jeremy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Curtis Hawthorne" <cghawthorne@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 6:41 PM
Subject: [linux-help] Re: Perl/CGI Question


>
> Ok, that works fine.  How do I specify a different
> file name for it to downloaded as?  Using just a
> header like "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
> it downloads it, but tries to save it as file.cgi or
> whatever the program is called.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Curtis
> --- Jeremy King <soapboxalpha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Sure.  Most cgi's just begin their output with a
> > http
> > header that sets the mime type to text/html.  What
> > you'll want to do is print a http header that sets
> > the
> > mime type to whatever the correct file type is:
> > text/plain, application/excel, image/gif, etc.  For
> > more authoritative info (the above mime types should
> > be right, but I've been known to be wrong.  Once or
> > twice), check out this URL:
> >
> > http://www.bjnet.edu.cn/tech/book/seucgi/ch10.htm
> >
> > Jeremy
> >
> > --- Curtis Hawthorne <cghawthorne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Is it possible to make a CGI program using Perl
> > that
> > > will feed the user's browser a file to download
> > that
> > > is outside the normal html tree, or one that is
> > > generated on the fly?  If so, how would I do this?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Curtis H.
> > >
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