[cgiapp] redirect/content type

Rhesa Rozendaal perl at rhesa.com
Wed Jun 11 21:27:41 EDT 2008


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.

I can recommend CGI::Application::Plugin::Output::XSV for this.

And if you have files on disk that you want to serve, I recommend 
CGI::Application::Plugin::Stream.

Both these plugins take care of the headers and content generation for you, 
efficiently.

Rhesa


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