[Belfast-pm] Files sent for download via CGI

[Simon McCartney]

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 02:26:08PM +0100, Andrew Dunn wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> You can actually set the "Content-Disposition:" header to use a specific
> filename instead of the name of the script.
> 
> Something like this should work:
> 
>    Content-disposition: filename="sheet.xls"
> 
> Apparently though with CGI.pm you can use the header method to behave
> directly as you want.
> 
>    print $query->header(-type=>'application/octet-stream',
>                         -attachment=>'sheet.xls');
> 
> I've never tried that second method myself though but it was taken from
> the CGI manual.
> 
> Hope that helps,

It does indeed, thanks, I guess I should have looked harder through the
CGI.pm documentation.  Both methods work a treat.


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