Re: Re: FTP from web pages

The other way (useful when generating files or extracting them from somewhere) is to:

print "Content-Type: image/gif\n\n"; #for example
while (<YOUR_FILE>) { print; }
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Daniellek
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Re: Re: Re: FTP from web pages by $code or die (Deacon) on Dec 20, 2000 at 18:18 UTC
This is quite a nice way of doing it. However, if the script that prints this is called "download.pl" then your browser will prompt to save the gif as download.pl. You can supply a different default filename by adding this to the headers: `print "Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=filename.ext";` [download] where you can change filename.ext to whatever you want.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: Re: FTP from web pages by merlyn (Sage) on Dec 20, 2000 at 18:48 UTC
And some browsers are not standards-compliant, and will ignore that header, so you can pull the trick I did in my making "tar.gz" files on the fly column. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
($code or die) Re: FTP from web pages by $code or die (Deacon) on Dec 21, 2000 at 06:21 UTC
Nice one! Is that Apache (or similar) specific? I.e. Might some web servers report a 404 error because the script doesn't technically exist at that location? For those that haven't looked at this column of Merlyn's, he does a post to /path_to_cgi/scriptname.pl/desired_filename.ext For anyone else reading this, I recommend looking at Merlyn's site because there are a lot of useful ideas and snippets of code that one can use quite often.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: FTP from web pages by Daniellek (Sexton) on Dec 20, 2000 at 18:44 UTC
I used that once upon a time, but my Netscape didn't support that, and i still got "download.pl" as a name of file :-( It's IE only supported AFAIK `-- Daniellek` [download]	[reply] [d/l]