Esteemed Monks, I once more seek your illumination of the dark recesses of my scatty little brain.

I have a script which is to handle a 'download once' mechanism for delivering a file. Everything else is working fine, but I need to have the script deliver the file anonymously. The file is about 24mb. I have this snippet (based on CGI Programming with Perl, 2nd ed p 314): 

    use constant BUFFER_SIZE => 4096;
    my $file_directory = '/home/goldcal/www/files/';
    
    my $buffer = "";
    my $file = $file_directory . '/wlmlm401.exe';
    
    print $cgi->header( -type => "application/exe", -expires => "-1d" 
+);
    
    #local *FILE;
    open (FILE, "<$file") or die "Cannot open file $file: $!";
    binmode ( STDOUT );
    binmode ( MY_FILE );

    while( read( MY_FILE, $buffer, BUFFER_SIZE ) ) {
      print $buffer;
    }
    close FILE;

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When I get to this point in my script the browser window goes blank, but I do not get the usual "Open or Save" dialogue fomr the browser. Any help greatly appreciated.

jdtoronto

In reply to Getting CGI script to send a binary file by jdtoronto

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