Hello,
I am downloading large file(file size more than1.9GB)
I am using Perl, Mason.
When I click to file to download, browser(Firefox) hangs.
I am not able to find what is the exact problem.
Tried to flush the buffer using $m->flush_buffer.but didn’t help.
Can you please help me to find out why it is not working?

Please find the below code which I written
my $file = "$file_name";
if (-e $file) {
local *FH;
open FH, $file or die "Unable to open file";
if (-B $file){
binmode FH;
}
$r->content_type('application/octet-stream');
$r->set_content_length(-s FH);
$r->headers_out->add("Content-Disposition" => qq(attachment; filename=
+"$display_filename"));
my $buffer;
$m->autoflush(1);
while (sysread(FH, $buffer, 262144)) {
$m->out($buffer);
}
$m->autoflush(0);
close FH;
return;

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In reply to Getting problem while downloading large file(1.9GB) by sbhalgat

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