Re: Download File using CGI

If I get it correctly it looks like you're outputting some text ( print("<BR>DOWNLOAD ATTEMPT 6<BR>") ) BEFORE sending the headers. This can't work, you must send the headers first, before anything else.
Then I think any of the proposed headers should work.

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Re: Download File using CGI by MonkPaul (Friar) on Jun 01, 2005 at 14:49 UTC
Ah, i see At the moment i am outputting the contents of the other files to the screen so the user can view them at their discretion, but if a want to be able to download the files then i should, possibly, start a new script that would just print the headers first, thus downloading the files. Cheers Any ideas on where the files are downloaded to ? MonkPaul	[reply]
Re^2: Download File using CGI by Joost (Canon) on Jun 01, 2005 at 14:57 UTC
Any ideas on where the files are downloaded to ? As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, you can't know where the files are stored after they're downloaded - if they're not just displayed inline anyway. You probably shouldn't care about it, since there's nothing you can do about that - the content-dispostion header is just a hint for the browser. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]