"Morse, Richard E" wrote:
>
> I'm not sure about it cutting off, but handling the naming issue of the download
> is something that I've dealt with before -- basically, most browsers are going
> to save the file by the name of the page they are getting it from. The trick is
> to fool the browsers into believing that they are downloading something by the
> name of the file you want. Happily, the HTTP specification includes the ability
> to pass extra path info. It's been a while since I wrote the code to do this,
> so I don't remember all of it, but basically, you want something that you call
> like this:
>
> http://mysite.com/myscript.cgi/path/to/my/file?any=extra+cgi+params
--------------------------^
When using PATH_INFO, you use / instead of ? to start the arg list:
http://mysite.com/myscript.cgi/relativepathtomy/script/any=extra+cgi+params
> Then myscript.cgi looks at an environment variable (whose exact name I can't
> remember off the top of my head, but is something like $ENV{'PATH_INFO'}) to
> determine which file to send back.
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