Thank you very much! Anyway, I think there is something I am getting wrong... When I use the cgi::application's header_prop (in the download_file subroutine) what I'm actually doing is a redirection to the download window, is it right? Cause I tried to make a redirection after the execution of the subroutine, but in this case the download doesn't start. If I put a sleep command after the subroutine, the script executes before the sleep command and then launches the download. So...I don't really understand this behaviour. I tried : 
     $self->download_zip();
    sleep 5;
    my $filename = "temporaneo/" . $self->session->param("nom_projet")
+ . ".zip";
    unlink $filename;

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and 
    
    $self->generate_zip();
    $self->download_zip();
    
    return $self->redirect("http://delete.cgi");

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What I was trying to do was following your advice: put the zip file in another directory and, if succeed, redirect to another run mode that erases the file, otherwise stay on the page and relaunch the download.

In reply to Re^2: cgi download and delete file by teddyttas
in thread cgi download and delete file by teddyttas

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