The Content-type MIME header is part of the equation. You'll also want a Content-disposition header to specify what the file should be named and a Content-length header always helps so the browser knows how much data to download. You may need to change $mime_type to something other than text/html if your browser still doesn't prompt you to download. You WILL need to re-serve the page in any case.
print "Content-type: $mime_type\n"; print "Content-disposition: filename=$file\n"; print "Content-length: $size\n\n"; Peter Guzis Web Administrator, Sr. ENCAD, Inc. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.encad.com -----Original Message----- From: Steve Sotis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 11:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Allowing downloads I am outputting html pages via perl. I want to put a button on one of these pages that, when clicked, pops up a "What would you like to do with this file? Open from current location / Save to disk?" dialog box, without affecting the contents of the page that the user is already on, i.e. without having to re-serve the page. I know how to do the button stuff, and I know how to output the data (non-html), but how do I force the browser to pop up the dialog box without affecting the current page? Is it a different "Content-Type" that forces it up? Any samples would be appreciated! Thanks, Steve _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Web mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Web mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
