Hi lee, On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 14:17:54 +0100 lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote:
> Hi, > > how can I make it so that my cgi program displays information on a web > page it sends to a user's web browser /and/ then makes the browser's > download dialog-box come up to let the user download a file? > > It seems that making the web browser wanting to download a file is only > possible by sending appropriate page headers. Since those have already > been sent to display the text on the web page, I can't seem to make the > browser download the file automatically. > CGI (= the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface protocol which isn't Perl-specific) allows you send some extra headers to the server, in the headers section before the first "\n\n". Which CGI library/framework are you using? In this day and age Plack is recommended: http://perlhacks.com/2016/01/easy-psgi/ Regards, Shlomi Fish -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
