Hi Monks,

WARNING ====> Depending on the solution, this might be more of an html question than a Mime::Lite question, but either way, i'm confident that you monks will know what I'm doing wrong here. I have never been disappointed by this site.

I am using Mime::Lite to email an html report which contains a hyperlink of text data. When a user clicks on the hyperlink, I want the text to be displayed in an appropriate OS application (in my case, it's Notepad). This seems simple enough, so I tried the following: 

## this will not run and generate an html report
my $html = <html content>
my $msg = MIME::Lite->new(
    Subject => 'my html report',
        To => 'xxx@gmail.com',
        Type => 'text/html',
         Data => $html);

$msg->attach(
       Type => 'text/plain',
       Path => '/var/tmp/data.txt'
       Disposition => 'attachment'

[download]
I thought that referencing the attachment in an href like the following would do the trick 
<a href="./data.txt">

[download]
but lo and behold, I have been fooled again! Strangely enough, I did this for image files with <img src> and it worked splendidly, so I'm not sure why it wouldn't work the same for plain text files. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong here?

AS usual, thanks for taking the time to read my lengthy message.

Best Regards, Michael

In reply to displaying an email attachment from a hyperlink by Anonymous Monk

Title:
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and:  <code> code here </code>
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