For a `real' header: 

print <<HTTP;
Content-Type: text/html
Refresh: 0;URL=http://www.MySite.DOM/myfile.tar.bz2

<html>
<head><title> tnx </title></head>
<body><h1> thank you </h1></body>
</html>
HTTP

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To save some CPU cycles, you can make that into an "unparsed" file (on my Apache box, by putting a .http extension on it) with the HTTP headers and the HTML together. The user sees only an HTML page, but there's this magic when they load it from your server that gives them the file.

In reply to Rea: http redirection and download by baku
in thread http redirection and download by bigboard

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