I am trying to build an automated system where a member can download any file that we have for them, we may have any type of file, examples may include:

pdf
gif
jpg
html
csv
txt
php
cgi
.zip
.tar

so, they could be binary files or they may be ascii only files. My question is this, since I want to count how many times the file is downloaded, when I print the file to the browser as an attachment, how do I know if I need to buffer the data or not?

I am using File::MimeInfo but I don't see how that can tell me if the file is binary or not...

Since I want this to be automated, I don't want to have to just check the extension for file I know for sure we will use, I want it to be automated so no matter what files we put there, it will work... like the list above does not include .psd, what if we wanted to add that one? if we have to hard code each different check, then we limit ourselves.

I would appreciate any pointers for this.

Richard

In reply to printing file downloads by Anonymous Monk

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