myfile.cgi?image.gif saved as myfile.cgi in mozilla?

[joe]

Hi i have a pl file that prints
print "Content-type: application/octet-stream\n\n";
and then the output of a file
in ie it works fine the download.cgi?myzip.zip saves the file as myzip.zip
in mozilla however i get the wrong file name i get download.cgi
i tried doing http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/download.cgi/myzip.zip and i
get the correct name but the contents dont look right any suggestions?
thanks.

 

[Tad McClellan]

any suggestions?

Post Perl questions in the Perl newsgroup.

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[Robin]

Hi i have a pl file that prints
print "Content-type: application/octet-stream\n\n";
and then the output of a file
in ie it works fine the download.cgi?myzip.zip saves the file as myzip.zip
in mozilla however i get the wrong file name i get download.cgi
i tried doing http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/download.cgi/myzip.zip and i
get the correct name but the contents dont look right any suggestions?
thanks.

check your query string parse code first.
-Robin

 

[Mark Clements]

check your query string parse code first.

What query string parse code? The only application doing any query
parsing for the purposes of this exercise is mozilla, and I doubt that
you are suggesting he check the source code of that.

Mark

 

[Sherm Pendley]

check your query string parse code first.

Robin, were you born stupid or do you have to work at it? To begin with, no
one in their right mind is going to be using their own parsing code.
Second, query string parsing doesn't have *one* *damn* *thing* to do with
this problem.

Joe, in theory what you need is to return a Content-Disposition header as
part of your response. It appears to have some problems in practice though.
See this page for discussion:

<http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=360>

And these are the relevant standards docs:

<http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1806.html>
<http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2183.html>

sherm--

 

[Alan J. Flavell]

Robin, were you born stupid or do you have to work at it?

Please resist the temptation to feed the trolls.

 

[Joe Smith]

my $s_buffer = undef;
while ( read( EXECGZIP, $s_buffer, 1024 ) )
{
print( $s_buffer );
}

You need to put
binmode STDOUT;
in front of that loop.
-Joe

 

[Joseph]

I found this a couple of days ago.
print "Content-disposition: attachment; filename=$filename\n";
print "Content-type: application/x-download\n\n";

so far it its working in both mozilla and i, with this headers i dont
have to specify file type. thanks for the tips