Hi Monks,

I am writing a small CGI script wherein the script will list all the files in a directory. I am able to list the files successfully but i am also trying to provide a link to the files which seems to have some problem.

In the below code, i have just showed the section where i provide the link to the file because i am able to get the list of files in the directory successfully


#!C:/Strawberry/Perl/bin/perl.exe

use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

my $cgi=new CGI;

print $cgi->header();
print $cgi->start_html("My Submissions");

print "<body bgcolor=#c0c0c0>";

#Link to a sample file in the directory
print "<h3><a href=\"file:///c:/temp/g.venkatesan/upload/test.txt\">Le
+on</a></h3><br>";

print "</body>";

print $cgi->end_html();

[download]

The problem with this is, when i click on the link, the corresponding file is not opening. Infact, nothing is happening. But when i copy and paste the same link in a browser, the file is opening.

Could someone help me out with this issue? I have tried the code in both IE6 and Firefox 3.5.3

Thanks in advance!!!

In reply to Problem linking a file in CGI script by venkatesan_G02

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