You could try using a refresh. First click pulls the information from the database and stuffs it into a file. The refresh loads the link of that file and downloads it from the browser.
-----Original Message----- From: "zentara"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu Dec 12 05:35:48 PST 2002 Subject: Re: automatically downloading files into a certain directory >On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:21:37 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anette >Seiler) wrote: > >>I want to do something where I am not sure it can be done with perl... >> >>Basically a user should klick on a button on a website. Then the script >>should create a file with certain information from a database on the >>webserver (that's easy) and that file should automatically be downloaded >>into a certain directory on the user's computer (that is the difficult >>part). The user is not computer illaterate, but he should not bother about >>downloading and choosing certain directories (as he will have to download >>hundreds of these files) and definitely not about ftp or something like that. >> >>Well, as I said, it is the downloading part that I don't know how to do. >>Can it be done with perl or should I look at something else - maybe javascript? > >I don't think it can be done automatically like you want, from a web >browser. It would cause too many security problems. In a web browser, >the user must be asked to save anything to disk, once for each file. > >If you need automation of this kind, you should look into using a >LWP script to automatically get the files, and keep the browser out of >it. > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ___________________________________________________ GO.com Mail Get Your Free, Private E-mail at http://mail.go.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
