Re[2]: Forcing Browser to Download text file created on the

BTilly@usccmail.bms.com
Tue, 05 May 1998 08:40:47 -0500 

     Erm...as I understand it the name of the file does something between
     nil and zilch in this case.  All that should matter is what is in the
     header...?

     So instead of, "You need the right header too of course." you should
     be saying, "This serves only as a reminder to put the right header
     in."

     Questioningly yours,
     Ben Tilly
     BenT@tigris.com


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Subject: Re: Forcing Browser to Download text file created on the fly
Author:  libwww-perl-request@ics.uci.edu at Internet/X400
Date:    5/4/98 5:11 PM


A simple solution is to call the cgi exactly as the file would be called if it w
as a
file. (Much as you can call a cgi 'teste.gif' to produce a gif on the fly)  You
need
the right header too of course.

You're welcome.

>How do I force the client/browser to start downloading or iniate the download/s
ave
as window when sending it a text file I am creating on the fly?  I do not want t
he
browser to display the text file and I do not want to create a file on the serve
r
that I must link to and then instruct the user to download. > >Jeff Platt >Camos
un
College



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