[ic] Need a Page to Download a Perl generated file

Kevin Walsh interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Tue Mar 26 17:07:00 2002


> I have a perl function that generates a report into a file
> from my catalog....
> I need a way to allow the user to click a button
> to download the file to their PC.
> 
> I have seen some code in the UI/Admin module
> that seems to do this, but it seems overly complex
> for what I am trying to do.
> 
> Can anyone point me in a direction?  Thanks.
> 
Try putting the following on your page:

    [tag op=header]Content-Type: application/octet-stream[/tag]

You can use a different MIME type if you like, depending upon the
type of data you are trying to create.

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