Hi Monks,

I was searching for answer but didn't find it. I have a Perl script that is recursively mirroring pages of website, depending on user conditions (like depth, file size, extension, path, etc.). I need this script to be working on a server side, with a html form, where user could just fill appropriate fields and submit them. It's easy to run such script on localhost, with apache, because I can just type path, so it saves website on my local computer (because server and client are using same machine).

But there is a problem. If I uploaded this script with form on a server, it wouldn't work, because my specified local path would be treated as a server path, so all files would be stored on server. I need some solution, so the script would save webpages on my local disk. Either save files directly, or store them on my server and then save on user's local disk (bad solution).

Thank you.

In reply to cgi saving files on client local disk by przemek88

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