Hello Monks,

It's a small project, and I'm pretty green to Perl.

It's an architecture and reality check question. Hope you don't mind.

Building a section of a web site so logged in users can download files we've uploaded for them to get. The files are 10 - 20 megabytes (pdf'd engineering reports).

We can't count on them having ftp clients, and our web host (shared hosting) won't allow cgi driven downloads or uploads exceeding 2 megs. (I know, host sucks.)

The current plan is, we'll ftp the file up, and my tool will provide a link so they can right-click and "save as".

(linux, apache, mod_perl, cgi-application and session plugin, HTML-Template, dbi, mysql.)

Originally, I wanted to control the download so we had as much positive info as possible that it was downloaded, date/time, IP address, login id etc. Since it doesn't look like I can use cgi.pm to drive the download, or the upload, and they're likely to not have an ftp client or know how to use it - the right clicked link appears reasonable.

Unless I'm missing something.

What protocol is being used in the right-clicked "save as"? Ftp managed by the browser? Http?

Does this act appear in the web server log so that I can programmatically find and record the download data?

I've spent a good deal of time in various searches here at Perlmonks, MS knowledge base, and others, and feel I've run out of even knowing where else to look.

Thanks in advance!

In reply to File download tool, file size issues, cgi-application by cupojoe

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