Hi Ben,
We have a runmode that does almost exactly what you want. It lets the
user download a csv file onto their PC with the correct filename. The
code we use is below.
$self->header_props( -type => 'text/csv' );
$self->header_add( '-content-disposition' => "attachment;
filename=$filename" );
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Benjamin Hitz wrote:
This is probably a vanilla CGI question, but I am working under CGIapp
so here goes.
I have a cgi::app that shows a table. I want to have a link which
generates a plain text (tab delim) version of the table, and pops up a
"save as" window.
Prior to cgi-app we just wrote a temp file on the server, and added a
link to it - this doesn't set the correct MIME type so if you click on
it it shows you the file in the browser (not what you want usually).
I have a run mode in my cgi-app to generate the file, but I seem to
have two mildly unsatisfying option:
1) write a tmp file on the server, and use redirect to get the txt
file... but I cannot seem to sent the Content-Type: on the redirect (I
even tried faking the header in the txt file).
2) change the header with $self->header('-type' ->
'application/octet-stream') and return the text in the run mode. This
gives me the "download" option (MIME type set correctly) but the file
name appears as "myscript.pl" and says it's a perl source.
Some way to set BOTH a redirect and a content-type? Or simply fake
the name name of the file?
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Hitz
Senior Scientific Programmer ** Saccharomyces Genome Database ** GO
Consortium
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