ok... the easy way, make your script called dnld or something, then pass the file in on $ENV{PATH_INFO} so your script call looks like /cgi-bin/dnld/foo.exe and that is an easy way to handle the filename (otherwise you need content-disposition headers...)

you will NEVER get msie to force a gif or jpg or whatever download MSIE blatantly ignores you... tell them to rigt click and do save as...

Netscape will do it if you set the Content-type: application/octet-stream

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