There may be a direct way but I am not aware of it. As a proposed solution you could have the user call a perl script that has the following steps:
1) create a lock file (or something similar) 2) open the file that is to be downloaded 3) print the proper header for that file type 4) print the file 5) remove the lock file Since the data in the file is being passed through the perl script at the point before the lock file is removed, as long as that download is occuring the file will exist, so then checking for the file would tell you if it is being downloaded....... (watch out for browser time outs, they shouldn't happen but you should test this!) Obviously you could make a dynamic named lock file, etc. to do things like tracking who is doing the downloading, how many, etc. This also depends on teh size of the downloadable file, I am assuming you are talking about a sizeable download. Hope this helps, http://danconia.org Octavian Rasnita wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to check if a certain file is downloading in this moment by a page > visitor. > Is it possible with Perl? > > I want to tell me true if the file is in the downloading process, and false > if the download has finished. > > Thank you. > I hope it is possible. > > Teddy Center: http://teddy.fcc.ro/ > Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
