I'm trying to log downloads of certain files, so I ran to the type of http://somewhere.com/fetch.pl?id=Application1, this is how I thought of it :

I then wanted to restrict downloads through this script, so that people cannot know the real location of the file and download it directly. so what I need is: have a file called foo_application1_bar.zip (or other) and then when I spit the contents to the browser I want to specify the filename to save with ex: Application1.zip

I wrote a little script to test with :

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

open (ZIP, "test.zip");
binmode(ZIP);
@all = <ZIP>;
close(ZIP);
print "Content-type: application/zip\n\n";
foreach (@all) {
    print;
}

[download]

this ran, I have a "save file to disk" message with the default filename fetch.pl and having the .pl extension associated with a prog on my pc, I couldn't change the extension. but when I renamed the file to fetch.zip it opened and was the file requested.


How can I specify the filename to save? I think it's a header but I can't find it.

Note: I know that the script is badly programmed and I should die on open failure and stuff, but as I said I was only testing.
Chady | http://chady.net/

In reply to Specifying filename for download by Chady

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