Re^4: Perl CGI to download files via web browser

i was trying with the below code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
#print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
my $filepath='/upload/testing.pm';

    print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";

    open("DOWNLOADFILE", "<".$filePath);
    while($fileContents = <DOWNLOADFILE>) {
        print $fileContents;
    }
print "Content-Type: text\n";
print "Content-Disposition: attachement; filename='testing.pm'\n";
print "Content-Description: File to download\n\n";
    close DOWNLOADFILE;
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Re^5: Perl CGI to download files via web browser by hippo (Archbishop) on Mar 08, 2013 at 18:12 UTC
Problem 1: You're printing two Content-Type headers. Solution: lose the first one. Problem 2: You're printing the content before the headers. Solution: swap them around. Update: Problem 3: The content type should probably be a full MIME type such as "text/plain".	[reply]
Re^6: Perl CGI to download files via web browser by tanuj (Novice) on Mar 11, 2013 at 15:43 UTC
Thanks for suggesting the solution ...I got the script working ... `use CGI; my $html= new CGI; my $file= $html->param('a'); my $filepath= "/var/www/upload/$file"; print ("Content-Type:application/x-download\n"); print "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file\n\n"; open FILE, "< $filepath" or die "can't open : $!"; binmode FILE; local $/ = \10240; while (<FILE>){ print $_; } close FILE; #unlink ($filepath);` [download]	[reply] [d/l]