Lawrence Statton wrote on 15.12.2004: >>Hi, >> >>I have some content stored within a database, which I want to be >>saved as a f ile on the user's system when requested. Currently, I >>generate a temporary fi le (timestamp_fileid.tex) and use a cron >>job to clean up the directory every 30 minutes: > >Using timestamp is a poor technique for forming unique filenames. >Someday, you *WILL* get two requests in the same second. Use >File::Temp. Even better -- don't use a file at all. I generate PDF >and Excel spreadsheets all the time, and I never write them out to >files. > I know, this was just intended as a preliminary solution. It is not in production use.
>>How can I make the user's browser >> >>a) save the file instead of just printing its content to the screen >>(as with the header text/plain), so I do not need to use a >>temporary file > >In your headers, you want to put something like > >Content-type: application/x-tex Content-disposition: attachment; >filename="custom-file.tex" > The Content-disposition header was what I was looking for. Thank you! I will do some testing with these options. Cheers, Jan -- These are my principles and if you don't like them... well, I have others. - Groucho Marx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
