I've been looking all around the internet for the answer to this question, and all I found were some documents that only worked partially.

I'm trying to force the download of an adobe pdf file, and I don't want to reaname the ext to zip or anything like that. What I want is a link that leads to my download counter to count the download, then force the pdf file to download. I've got the file to force download, but when I try to open the file that I downloaded, adobe tells me that the file has been corrupted.

The code that I used was that from this node "Need help with downloading".

The only thing that I changed from this code was removed the

File::Type(I don't have access to this on my server)

and changed

print 'Content-Type: ', File::Type->new()->mime_type($filePath[$i]) || 'application/force-download', "\n";

to

print 'Content-Type: ', 'application/pdf' || 'application/force-download', "\n";

I'm able to download the file, but it doesn't download correctly. Can someone please tell me why, and how to go about doing this properly.

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