Dear Monks,

I am having a hard time downloading a text file in the correct format from a Apache server (running in Unix).

All I am trying to do is to have a button to download a text file (let us say, 123.inp residing in htdocs folder) from the server. When I click on 'Download Text File' button, it should provide the option to either "Open" or "Save" the file.

Everything works fine except that if I click on 'Open', the file opens as one single line in "NotePad". I know it is because the file is downloaded in "binary" format but I don't know how to fix it. Any suggestion would be of great help 

use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';

my $query = new CGI;

print $query->header();
print $query->start_html();
print $query->button( 
        -name => "Download", 
    -value=>"Download Text File",
    -onclick=> "window.location.href='/123.inp';"
    );
print $query->end_html();

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In reply to Downloading a Text file from a Unix server (Apace) using CGI by stumbler

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