On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 10:22:44 +0200, Martijn van den Burg
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke gently:
> Hi list,
>
> I want to present the user of my application with a 'download' pop-up box
> when he clicks on a certain link. The download box must have a default name
> already filled in. The (ASCII) data is generated on the fly.
>
> This works already if I set
> $self->header_props(-type=>'application/octet-stream') but (1) I'm not really
> downloading an application (just a text file) and (2) the default name is the
> name of my application, what I dislike.
>
> According to RFC 1806 (http://www.pasteur.fr/cgi-bin/mfs/01/18xx/1806) I
> should use the '-Content-Disposition' http header field.
>
> So I created the following concoction:
>
>
>$self->header_props(-type=>'text/plain',-Content-Disposition=>'attachment;filename=dbase.txt');
>
>
> However, this prints the text in the browser window instead, of bringing up a
> pop-up download box.
>
> So the Q. is: Can header_props accept more than one argument? And if so, does
> it accept 'Content-Disposition'?
>
> By the way: this is not a browser quirk: behaviour is consistent in
> Konqueror, Nitscope, Mozilla and Internet Exploder.
Yes, for some reason the key "-Content-Disposition" is not being saved. I
guess it's the hyphen. From a debug session:
.....
DB<4> $app->header_props(-type=>'text/plain',-Content-Disposition=> 'attachment;
filename="somefile.txt"');
DB<5> x $app
0 CGI::Application=HASH(0x836b5d4)
'__HEADER_PROPS' => HASH(0x84dc258)
'-type' => 'text/plain'
0 => 'attachment; filename="somefile.txt"'
'__HEADER_TYPE' => 'header'
.....
So try quoting the param:
$self->header_props(
-type => 'text/plain',
'-Content-Disposition' => 'attachment; filename="dbase.txt"',
-Application=>'dbase.txt', # Adding this header improves compatibility for me.
);
Hope this helps!
-Seb
Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try. -Edward Abbey
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