Re: [Boston.pm] Re: "Slightly" off topic from Hartford PM Group

2003-03-02 Thread Erik Price
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 10:55 AM, Gyepi SAM wrote: I used the 'Content-Disposition' header [1] for a long time, but eventually gave up and simply appended the filename to the url because some versions of IE ignore the the headers altogether. I think it was a workaround to fix the

Re: [Boston.pm] Re: Slightly off topic from Hartford PM Group

2003-02-27 Thread Gyepi SAM
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:45:51PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If you have to lie to your software to make it do the right thing, I'd > > say you're using the wrong software. But one has work somehow... > Your observation is correct. However, when one provides/supports web > software

Re: [Boston.pm] Re: Slightly off topic from Hartford PM Group

2003-02-27 Thread bobm3
> If you have to lie to your software to make it do the right thing, I'd > say you're using the wrong software. But one has work somehow... > Gyepi; Your observation is correct. However, when one provides/supports web software that MUST serve information to the masses, the masses are most

Re: [Boston.pm] Re: "Slightly" off topic from Hartford PM Group

2003-02-27 Thread Gyepi SAM
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 01:38:23PM -0500, Richard Morse wrote: > > On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 01:10 PM, Gyepi SAM wrote: > > >That url won't do what you want. This one should: > > > > http://.../my_script.cgi/filename.ext?null=null > I think that I tried this a while ago, but it didn't

Re: [Boston.pm] Re: "Slightly" off topic from Hartford PM Group

2003-02-27 Thread Jay Powers
This is what if have used. I have to admit I haven't tested it in all the scenarios. $query->header(-Type=>'application/zip','Content- Disposition'=>'attachment;filename=myfile.zip'); Jay On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 11:21, Richard Morse wrote: > > On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 11:00

Re: [Boston.pm] Re: "Slightly" off topic from Hartford PM Group

2003-02-27 Thread Richard Morse
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 01:10 PM, Gyepi SAM wrote: That url won't do what you want. This one should: http://.../my_script.cgi/filename.ext?null=null 1. I only keep the null=null parameter because you claim it is necessary. 2. I assume that your webserver can separate path info

Re: [Boston.pm] Re: "Slightly" off topic from Hartford PM Group

2003-02-27 Thread John Saylor
hi ( 03.02.27 08:03 -0500 ) Bob Mariotti: > When the user select the data desired to be downloaded from the page our > perl programs issue a content-type: directive. have you tried: application/octet-stream and using the content-disposition header? -- .--- ... [ x ]

Re: [Boston.pm] Re: "Slightly" off topic from Hartford PM Group

2003-02-27 Thread Richard Morse
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 11:00 AM, Jay Powers wrote: I have always used the following in the header. Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=thefile.txt So would I do something like: print $q->header('application/zip; filename=myfile.zip'); ? Thanks, Ricky

Re: [Boston.pm] Re: "Slightly" off topic from Hartford PM Group

2003-02-27 Thread Richard Morse
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 10:55 AM, Gyepi SAM wrote: Appending the filename to the url works with all browsers, AFAIK. Not any more. At least, on all of my Win2K boxes, with IE6-what-ever-the-latest-version-is, sending a script to the url

Re: [Boston.pm] Re: "Slightly" off topic from Hartford PM Group

2003-02-27 Thread Gyepi SAM
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:16:50AM -0500, Richard Morse wrote: > > On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 08:03 AM, Bob Mariotti wrote: > > >1) no dialog box appears and the file is automatically downloaded and > >stored in some obscure directory somewhere where the user cannot find > >it; ow 2)

Re: [Boston.pm] Re: "Slightly" off topic from Hartford PM Group

2003-02-27 Thread Dan Boger
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:16:50AM -0500, Richard Morse wrote: > But if you do find a solution for setting the filename, I'd like to > know... I seem to remember something about a Content-disposition header that can do this? Something like: Content-disposition: file; filename=prog.exe I

Re: [Boston.pm] Re: "Slightly" off topic from Hartford PM Group

2003-02-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:16 AM -0500 2/27/03, Richard Morse wrote: On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 08:03 AM, Bob Mariotti wrote: 1) no dialog box appears and the file is automatically downloaded and stored in some obscure directory somewhere where the user cannot find it; ow 2) a dialog box will appear but

Re: [Boston.pm] Re: "Slightly" off topic from Hartford PM Group

2003-02-27 Thread Richard Morse
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 08:03 AM, Bob Mariotti wrote: 1) no dialog box appears and the file is automatically downloaded and stored in some obscure directory somewhere where the user cannot find it; ow 2) a dialog box will appear but the directory setting is obscure and the filename