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I already supposed that it would be a tricky thing. I'm using Unix and I already know the method with symbolic links. As i cannot predict the name of the file, a solution is , to create the link and send a reload command for that link and then remove the link. But the link name must have the same name as the file<br />
( incl. extension) and the extension will confuse the browser.<br />
The content-type is not always the main criteria.<br />
From all you said I learned , that the key point is to make the browser send an URL with the name of the file.<br />
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I already supposed that it would be a tricky thing. I'm using Unix and I already know the method with symbolic links. As i cannot predict the name of the file, a solution is , to create the link and send a reload command for that link and then remove the link. But the link name must have the same name as the file
( incl. extension) and the extension will confuse the browser.
The content-type is not always the main criteria.
From all you said I learned , that the key point is to make the browser send an URL with the name of the file.







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I use a perl cgi script to limit access to files to authorized users only. I send the files with content-type application/octet-stream so that they will be offered for saving to disk. Unfortunately the filename that the browser is proposing is derived from the cgi scriptname. How can I set that filename in the cgi script ?
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I use a perl cgi script to limit access to files to authorized users only. I send the files with content-type application/octet-stream so that they will be offered for saving to disk. Unfortunately the filename that the browser is proposing is derived from the cgi scriptname. How can I set that filename in the cgi script ?

how to set the filename for data that is sent to the browser  for downloading

A scripting language is a programming language that supports scripts, programs written for a special run-time environment that automate the execution of tasks that could alternatively be executed one-by-one by a human operator. Scripting languages are often interpreted (rather than compiled). Primitives are usually the elementary tasks or API calls, and the language allows them to be combined into more complex programs. Environments that can be automated through scripting include software applications, web pages within a web browser, the shells of operating systems (OS), embedded systems, as well as numerous games. A scripting language can be viewed as a domain-specific language for a particular environment; in the case of scripting an application, this is also known as an extension language.