<a href="http://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/download.cgi?filename=somefil
+e.txt">
  Download somefile.txt
</a>

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;
use CGI;

# clean up the environment for CGI use
BEGIN {
    delete @ENV{qw(IFS CDPATH ENV BASH_ENV)};
    $ENV{'PATH'} = '/bin:/usr/bin:';
}

$CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS = 1;
$CGI::POST_MAX        = 1024;
my $q = new CGI;

my $filepath = '/vs/www.yoursite.com/';
my $filename = $q->param('filename');
# stop backing up path with filname like ../../../etc/passwd
invalid($filename) if $filename =~ m|../|;
# untaint $filename - allow alphanumerics . - and / in name
($filename) = $filename =~ m|^([\w\d.-/]+)\z|; 
download_file( $filepath, $filename );
exit;
 
sub download_file {
    my ($filepath,$filename) = @_;
    invalid($filename) unless -e $filepath.$filename;
    my $filesize = -s filepath.$filename; # could use _
    print "Content-disposition: attachment; filename=$filename\n";
    print "Content-Length: $filesize\n";
    print "Content-Type: application/octet-stream\n\n";
    my $buffer;
    open FILE, $filepath.$filename or die "Oops $!";
    binmode FILE;
    binmode STDOUT;
    print $buffer while read(FILE, $buffer, 4096);
    close FILE;
}

sub invalid {
    my $filename = shift;
    print $q->header, "<p>$filename does not exist on this server";
  exit;
}

[download]

This will send a specific file with its name to the browser. A word of warning. First we need to hardcode a $filepath into the script. Second we need to stop someone downloading $filename = '../../../etc/passwd'.

cheers

tachyon

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In reply to Re: Upload-dialog and CGI-download possibilities by tachyon
in thread Upload-dialog and CGI-download possibilities by kodo

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