in reply to Downloading multiple files

There is no such way to download multiple files in one go. with http. I see two possibilities. Either you use the tar program (or the Archive::Tar module) to pack all files together into one file to download, or you create a page which opens the download URLs for all files via JavaScript in pop-up fashion.

The second method has many pitfalls of browser compatibility, client bandwidth and client stupidity, you also have to make sure that each client can also manually download all files. I would recommend looking into the one-file-solution.

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RE: Re: Downloading multiple files
by merlyn (Sage) on Jun 16, 2000 at 20:16 UTC
    Corion said:
    ... Either you use the tar program (or the Archive::Tar module) to pack all files together into one file to download ...
    I just did a WT column that creates a small "shopping cart" and builds a .tar.gz file on the fly, even renaming it some nice unique name. If it's not online yet, it'll be there within a month, since it's one of the recent columns.

    -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker