Hi Shannon,
This script works for me (IE and NS) and as you can see it is a compilation of
several hints posted on this list :)
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -T
print "Content-type: application/x-foobar\n\n";
$file = $ENV{PATH_INFO};
$file =~ s/[^\w.-]+//g;
$file = "/somedir/download/$file";
open(DOWNLOAD,"<$file") || die "could not open file for download.\n";
while(<DOWNLOAD>) {
print $_;
}
close(DOWNLOAD);
exit;
You should be able to download files from /somedir/download/ using URL:
http://www.hostname.com/cgi-bin/download.cgi/file.txt. Hope it works for
you too.
tchau
Jan-Willem
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Shannon Murdoch wrote:
> Don't take offense RaFaL =)
>
> I tried the idea you had and as you said, Netscape automatically brought up
> a download window but Internet Explorer just displayed it's contents in the
> browser window (bugger).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -Shan
>
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rafal Pocztarski)
> > Newsgroups: perl.beginners.cgi
> > Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 13:58:47 +0100
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Auto-initialising a client-side download
> >
> > Shannon Murdoch wrote:
> >>
> >> Oh, I only just found there was more beyond the first quoted block of text!
> >> I'll look in to it now.
> >
> > That's because most of people here can't quote at all. There is always
> > more text below any quoted text im my messages. Why would I quote
> > anything if I did't want to comment or answer it?
> >
> > - RaFaL Pocztarski, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
>
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