A quick google search returned a PHP varient. Transcribing it into perl and extending the functionality: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use File::Type;

my $file = $0;

print "Pragma: public\n"; # reportedly required
print 'Content-Type: ', File::Type->new()->mime_type($file) || 'applic
+ation/force-download', "\n";
print "Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=$file\n";
print "Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary\n";
print 'Content-Length: ', -s $file, "\n\n";

open(FILE, "$file");
binmode $_ foreach (*FILE, *STDOUT);
print foreach (<FILE>);
close(FILE);

[download]

Verified to work with Apache on Linux.

UPDATE: Removed unnecessary variables

In reply to Re: Need help with downloading by eibwen
in thread Need help with downloading by gl2103

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