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Sorry , I did not get how to use it and it still not working. Can you please elaborate ?

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Re^3: How to download a file from the server (content disposition CGI->header( qw{ -type mime/type -attachment filename } ) )
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 23, 2013 at 13:15 UTC

    Sorry , I did not get how to use it and it still not working. Can you please elaborate ?

    The code you posted, the headers it generates, doesn't match the headers CGI::header generates

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      Hi ,
      The downloading is working now for simple text files. For downloading excel file (.xls) I am using the following content but the files are getting downloaded of 0 bytes size and corrupted.
      I am using following content type for excel but of no use. Please help. 

      print "Content-Type:application/vnd.ms-excel\n";
print "Content-Disposition:attachment;filename=data.xls\n\n";

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        I recommend looking at a network dump and inspecting the web server error logs.

        Also, you may want to binmode the socket when sending binary data. You also want to send a Content-Length header and a HTTP response code. Maybe you want to use HTTP::Response or CGI to create the response output?

        Update: You're already using binmode.

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        downloaded of 0 bytes size and corrupted.

        Thats impossible

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