That's exactly what I don't understand. What make the difference, that my way won't work compared to what you said "reverse the steps you're doing"?

I got 4 scripts. Script 1 showing a form. If sending the form, script 2 is working with the data printing meta-redirect tag to script 3. Why I can't say download and redirect to script 4?

If I would leave script 3 and call script 4 with one parameter more, nothing will be shown, because I had to use the content-type in script 4 which won't show my html. - Expected it would show something, would I be able to click links in this case?


Edit: What about using javascript opening a new tab calling my download script there. Should be possible?

In reply to Re^6: Perl CGI download file and redirect by Yaerox
in thread Perl CGI download file and redirect by Yaerox

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