Hello.

I recently got information on some other nodes about creating and storing files using CGI.

Now i have the trouble of trying to get the browser to download them. I have a number of files ready for download in different directories on the server. The one i am trying to download here is called $updated - an updated text file.

I understand that the browser was designed not to download the files automatically, but i want it to do something at least that can allow for downloading from a server location.

My questions are: 1. I have tried to use the code from File Download from CGI Script but it doesnt work. I have the following : 

print("<BR>DOWNLOAD ATTEMPT 0<BR>");
print ("Content-Type:application/x-download\n");
print ("Content-Disposition:attachment;filename=$updated\n\n");

print("<BR>DOWNLOAD ATTEMPT 1<BR>");
print $html->header(-type => 'application/octet-stream',
                    -Content_Disposition => "attachment",
                    -filename => $updated);

print("<BR>DOWNLOAD ATTEMPT 3<BR>");
print $html->header(-type => 'application/octet-stream',
                    -Content_Disposition => "attachment",
                    -filename => $updated);

print("<BR>DOWNLOAD ATTEMPT 4<BR>");
print ('<BR><a href="file.txt"></a><BR>');     ## added late

print("<BR>DOWNLOAD ATTEMPT 5<BR>");
print ("Content-Disposition:attachment;filename=$updated<BR>");
print ("Content-type: application/octet-stream<BR><BR>");

print("<BR>DOWNLOAD ATTEMPT 6<BR>");
print('<a href="$updated?downloadid=1">download the txt file</a>');

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but none of it works. It merely diplays the text on the screen, as described in the node above.

2. If the files were downloaded where do they go if no directory is specified. With some of the code above i found that you could get the browser in theoru to display a save as box (not done working here).

Any ideas ?

MonkPaul.

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