Re: Forcing a "save as' dialogue box to come up on left click

Tony Frasketi wrote: > >> What I was intending was to call the cgi script and rather than it >> printing the normal text/html header it would print the header directly, >> that way you are guaranteed to be operating the way you intended. > > Hi Wiggins > Thanks for this suggestion... I've tried t

Re: Forcing a "save as' dialogue box to come up on left click

Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: Interesting way to do it, not what I intended. Have you 100% confirmed that the header is being passed back correctly? I am not sure how Apache (or whatever web server you are using) handles setting the type, it might be finding it from somewhere else that is overridin

Re: Forcing a "save as' dialogue box to come up on left click

> What I was intending was to call the cgi script and rather than it > printing the normal text/html header it would print the header directly, > that way you are guaranteed to be operating the way you intended. Hi Wiggins Thanks for this suggestion... I've tried the following bit of CGI script

Re: Forcing a "save as' dialogue box to come up on left click

Tony Frasketi wrote: > Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: > >> Most browsers will provide this functionality if the return header is >> "application/octet-stream" rather than "text/html" or the like. In >> the case of IE you may have to fool the browser into thinking it is >> getting something different th

Re: Forcing a "save as' dialogue box to come up on left click

Thanks for the response, David. I scanned thru the document to which you refer and from what I can understand it appears 'to me' that the 'Content-Disposition Header Field" being described is in the context of email messages. Can you give me some more information as to whether this can apply t

RE: problems with CGI.pm upload feature

Scott R. Godin wrote: : Regrettably this isn't getting me any closer to a resolution -- : what about the code? can anyone see anything I might have : overlooked? done wrong? should it, in fact, be working right : now? Did you test to be certain that @file actually ho

Re: problems with CGI.pm upload feature

Scott R. Godin wrote: script is at http://phpfi.com/78748 Possibly used the wrong web browser to upload the file. Not all of them support this feature. Firefox does not. It will however provide the CGI script with the file name. Firefox doesn't support file uploads? I use it all the tim