Re: Forcing Browser to Download text file created on the fly

Danny J. Sohier (dsohier@bibl.ulaval.ca)
Wed, 06 May 1998 12:09:22 -0400


At 08:12 98/05/06 +1000, you wrote:
>Does anyone have any ideas on how to tell the browser to save the file
>with a name that is different to the CGI script that initiates the save.
>(Assuming Content-type: application/octet-stream\n\n )
>
>I've tried printing to a file that is in another location ( Location:
>xxx.typ\n\n ) but then you go back to the problem that started this
>discussion.
>

That's the kicker in all of this. Although i've been using octet-stream for
a while, I haven't been able to give a personnalized file name... Any help
would be great.

Danny
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