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2 content-types

I need 2 things to happen in my CGI:
First: if the user successfully fills in the fields, they will be prompted where to save a tab-delimited file. This is done by Content-type: text/tab-separated-values
Second: if the user successfully fills in the fields, they will get a confirmatory thank-you message via Content-type: text/html

Of course, if they were not successful, they will get a text/html error message. The question is: how do you get 2 content-types to work together? Kind of like when you download a Netscape product. After you select a path to download it, you get a Thank-You message.

aioudine

here is P-code

------- main script ------
START
IF good_input

generate file(filename)

output
<HTML><TITLE></TITLE><BODY>
<frameset rows="1,*" border=0>
<frame name=wsg_top src="/cgi-bin/download.pl?filename" marginheight=0>
<frame name=wsg_bot src="thankyou.html" marginheight=0>
</frameset>
</BODY></HTML>
ELSE
output
<HTML><TITLE></TITLE><BODY>
Samethink wrong try again
</BODY></HTML>
FI

END
--- end main script ------

---- download.pl script -----
START
getvariable(filename)
output
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url="http://site/downloaddir/filename">
END
--- end download script -----

Member_18223

ASKER

That does not help. I need somthing more generic. The proposed anser will not fit my needs. The simple theory of how to tackle multiple content-types would help, however. I am not using frames and the tab-separated file is one the user generates based upon what they enter in the form.

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Member_18223

ASKER

I guess I should mention that like the tab-separated file, the Thank-you message is also based on user input. It will contain the contents of the tab-separated file ie. it will say something like "Thank you, this is the contents of the file you saved: ...". Hence, it cannot be a static HTML page. It must be part of the script. Feel free to use some Perl code if you think that will help.

Member_18223

ASKER

Ok, since this seems to be a more difficult question than originally intended, I am providing more details. Here is the main part of the Perl script:

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#print "HTTP/1.0 200\n"; # Tried this with and without the comment
print "Content-type: multipart/mixed;boundary=\"Boundary\"\n\n"; # tried this with # x-mixed-replace as well.

print "--Boundary\n\n";
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
thankyou();
success();

print "--Boundary\n\n";
print "Content-type: text/tab-separated-values\n\n";
success();

print "--Boundary--\n\n";
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