Hi monks, I have a cgi form that takes user input ,queries a database on the given parameters and generates a table.
I would like to give an option of saving this table as a CSV file.
I can convert the table to csv.my problem is i cannot figure out how to deal with the fact that the web page can be accessed from anywhere and i have to give an option for the user to save the table to a csv file on his disk.
(only thing i can think of is to take email address as an input and mail him the file).i am sure there is a better way.
Any suggestions?
Regards,
chimni
UPDATE:Matija: Yes, upon clicking a button i want the data in the table to be saved as a csv file.
So your saying i should make a sub-routine,call it on click,write the headers your provided [Content-type=application/octet-stream; filename="some_filename"],convert my html to csv and output it

In reply to Save HTML table as CSV on local disk by chimni

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