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> - Original Message -
> From: "Wiggins d'Anconia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Octavian Rasnita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 4:47 AM
> Subject: Re: Checking if
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Octavian Rasnita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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>> I want to check if a certain file is downloading in this
>> moment by a page
>> visitor.
>> Is it possible with Perl?
Another option which is widely used is to have a cgi-script
do the file "download", by
> -Original Message-
> From: Octavian Rasnita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 6:03 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Checking if a file is downloading
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> Hi all,
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> I want to check if a certain file is downloading in this
> moment by a page
> visitor.
There may be a direct way but I am not aware of it. As a proposed
solution you could have the user call a perl script that has the
following steps:
1) create a lock file (or something similar)
2) open the file that is to be downloaded
3) print the proper header for that file type
4) print the
