Respected Perl Monks! I am a Perl beginner with just a few days of perl learning experience. I am trying to create a CGI script which can display files in a folder and after clicking the file should be downloaded. I can see the list of files, but i am unable to download the file. Can you please help? here is my script: 

#!C:/Dwimperl/perl/bin/perl.exe

use 5.010;
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;



my $dir='C:/Perl64/bin/';
opendir (DIR, $dir);
my $file=readdir DIR;
my $cgi = CGI->new();
 print $cgi->header(),$cgi->start_html();
 print $cgi->start_ul();
 while ($file = readdir DIR) {
  #print $cgi->h1($file);
  my $anchor=$cgi->a({ 'href' => "$dir"."$file" }, $file);
  print $cgi->li($anchor);
}
closedir DIR;

print $cgi->end_ul(),$cgi->end_html();

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When I click on blue anchors, nothing happens!

In reply to Perl cgi script for directory listing and file downloading!! Problem: Unable to download the file by masood91

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