Fellow Monasterians,

I'm in GGI::Application and using the octet-stream parameter of the header_add method to stream a file download.

This works fine, but after streaming the file, I would like to output another screen dealing with what was just downloaded. Is there a way to return 2 different outputs? Below is a stripped down version of what I have.

package FooBar;

use base 'CGI::Application';
use HTML::Template;

sub setup {
   my $self = shift;
   $self->start_mode('sh');
   $self->mode_param('rm');       
   $self->run_modes('sf' => 'save_file');
}

sub save_file {

   my $self = shift;
   
   my $some_file = "This,is,a,test";

   $self->header_add( 
                     -type =>'application/octet-stream', 
                     -attachment => "somefile.csv',
                     -expires =>'0', 
                    );
                    
   return $some_file; 
}

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Tried this, but all it did was stream the file:

$template = $self->load_tmpl( "foobar.tmpl");    
return ($template->output, $some_file);

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Ideas? TIA


—Brad
"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men." George Eliot

In reply to After sending file by octet/stream, open new template page by bradcathey

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