[cgiapp] redirect/content type

[David Baxter]

Hi Ben,

We have a runmode that does almost exactly what you want. It lets the 
user download a csv file onto their PC with the correct filename. The 
code we use is below.

    $self->header_props( -type => 'text/csv' );
    $self->header_add( '-content-disposition' => "attachment; 
filename=$filename" );

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Benjamin Hitz wrote:
>
> This is probably a vanilla CGI question, but I am working under CGIapp 
> so here goes.
>
> I have a cgi::app that shows a table.  I want to have a link which 
> generates a plain text (tab delim) version of the table, and pops up a 
> "save as" window.
>
> Prior to cgi-app we just wrote a temp file on the server, and added a 
> link to it - this doesn't set the correct MIME type so if you click on 
> it it shows you the file in the browser (not what you want usually).
>
> I have a run mode in my cgi-app to generate the file, but I seem to 
> have two mildly unsatisfying option:
>
> 1) write a tmp file on the server, and use redirect to get the txt 
> file... but I cannot seem to sent the Content-Type: on the redirect (I 
> even tried faking the header in the txt file).
>
> 2) change the header with $self->header('-type' -> 
> 'application/octet-stream') and return the text in the run mode.  This 
> gives me the "download" option (MIME type set correctly) but the file 
> name appears as "myscript.pl" and says it's a perl source.
>
> Some way to set BOTH a redirect and a content-type?   Or simply fake 
> the name name of the file?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
> -- 
> Ben Hitz
> Senior Scientific Programmer ** Saccharomyces Genome Database ** GO 
> Consortium
> Stanford University ** hitz at genome.stanford.edu
>
>
>
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