I've had troubles from time to time with the way various browsers work with various headers, particularly the difference between Netscape/Mozilla and IE.

Several years ago, we finally managed to stumble on a header combination that "Just Works" properly for all known versions of all known browsers, and WILL save the file with the filename that you want.

CGI::header(
    -type => "application/octet-stream; name=$filename",
    '-Content-Disposition' => "attachment; filename=$filename",
    '-Content-Transfer-Encoding' => 'binary',
);

[download]

It's served me well for many years now.
Enjoy!

In reply to Re: How to send a file vith apache? by adamk
in thread How to send a file vith apache? by pcouderc

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