Re: Printing to a Variable

You can get around the IE stupidiy in a file download by explicitly setting the content-type to "application/download". Here is the code I use (using Mason, but I'm sure you can extrapolate):

  my $subr = $r->lookup_file($file);
  return 404 unless -f $file and $subr->status == 200;
  $r->content_type("application/download");
  $r->header_out('Content-disposition' => "attachment; filename=\"$fil
+e\"");
  $r->send_http_header;
  return 200 if $r->header_only;
  $subr->run;
  $m->abort;
[download]

Hope that helps

-pete
"I am Jack's utter lack of disbelief"

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Re: Re: Printing to a Variable by Dr. Mu (Hermit) on Mar 15, 2002 at 06:31 UTC
Yes, it did help -- for IE5.5 anyway -- and that was my main concern. Frankly, I wasn't expecting it to, as I've tried more HTTP header mumbo-jumbo than you can imagine. The PHP folks are up against the same problem, and there's a plethora of similar incantations in their newsgroups -- none of which worked for me. But yours did. Thank you!	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Printing to a Variable by dreadpiratepeter (Priest) on Mar 15, 2002 at 14:13 UTC
No problem, I'm glad my wrestling match with it is saving others from having to wrestle it. -pete "I am Jack's utter lack of disbelief"	[reply]