Re^5: Perl cgi script for directory listing and file downloading!! Problem: Unable to download the file

There is no default. You should always give an absolute path.

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Re^6: Perl cgi script for directory listing and file downloading!! Problem: Unable to download the file by masood91 (Novice) on Nov 05, 2014 at 12:56 UTC
Ok, I have successfuly opened a file in browser directly using this URL: http://localhost:8080/Documents/dbschema.pdf now in script, should i use this? `opendir(DIR,'http://localhost:8080/Documents/')` ?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^7: Perl cgi script for directory listing and file downloading!! Problem: Unable to download the file by Corion (Patriarch) on Nov 05, 2014 at 14:55 UTC
You still need to learn about the difference between access via HTTP and local access. HTTP uses `http://` URLs. Local access uses file paths like `C:\www\Documents\`. readdir does local access. The web browser does HTTP access.	[reply] [d/l] [select]