[linux-help] Re: Perl/CGI Question

[Curtis Hawthorne <cghawthorne@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks!  Exactly what I was looking for.


--- Jeremy King <jmking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Google rocks.  I haven't bothered to actually figure
> out the code you will
> need, but I found that you can use a
> "content-disposition" header, with a
> "filename" parameter to suggest a file name to the
> browser.  If you use
> cgi.pm, it may already support this functionality. 
> If not you may want to
> read the RFC 2183
>
(http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc2183.html)
> to
> figure out how to format the header.
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeremy King" <jmking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 7:30 PM
> Subject: [linux-help] Re: Perl/CGI Question
> 
> 
> >
> > 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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