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computers/HTTP doesn't like typos 

$ perl -MCGI -le " print CGI->header( qw{ -type mime/type -attachment 
+filename } ) "
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="filename"
Content-Type: mime/type

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Re^2: How to download a file from the server (content disposition CGI->header( qw{ -type mime/type -attachment filename } ) )
by ghosh123 (Monk) on Jul 23, 2013 at 13:12 UTC

    Sorry , I did not get how to use it and it still not working. Can you please elaborate ?

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      Sorry , I did not get how to use it and it still not working. Can you please elaborate ?

      The code you posted, the headers it generates, doesn't match the headers CGI::header generates

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        Hi ,
        The downloading is working now for simple text files. For downloading excel file (.xls) I am using the following content but the files are getting downloaded of 0 bytes size and corrupted.
        I am using following content type for excel but of no use. Please help. 

        print "Content-Type:application/vnd.ms-excel\n";
print "Content-Disposition:attachment;filename=data.xls\n\n";

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