Returning file problem.

rkrenek,

make sure that your default filename appears as last component in the url as in ..../TEST.ZIP. So your URL could actually be: http://bla.bla.bla/example/GetFile/TEST.ZIP?zipfile=rich.zip where TEST.ZIP would be part of path_info().

Here is some code (using perl and CGI.pm) which may help you:

What you need is perl and CGI.pm. You seem to have perl, otherwise you would not have posted to the perl-group. Here is the code which you can call download.pl if you want to:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use CGI qw/:standard/;
use HTTP::Date qw(time2str);
$|++;
# This is the file which will be sent to the user
my $zip="/user/thoellri/test.zip";
# This is the default filename the browser will select for the file
my $zipname="TheName.zip";
my $cgi=new CGI;
my ($read, $buf, $t);

if (!$cgi->path_info()) {
   # if the script doesn't have path_info() attached, redirect to ourself
   # this time with path_info() attached
   print $cgi->redirect($cgi->script_name()."/".$zipname);
} else {
   # We got path_info() send the data.
   $t=time2str;
   print $cgi->header(-nph => 1, -date => $t,
             "Last-modified" => $t, -pragma => "no-cache",
             -expires => 'now', -type => "application/x-zip" );
   open($zip,"<$zip");
   while($read=read($zip, $buf, 1024)) {
       print $buf;
   }
   close($zip);
}

Hope this helps
  Tobias

thoellri,
Unfortunatlly I was trying to get away from doing it that way. The main reason I need to pass 2 variables to my program. First the "zipfile" which is a zipped file, second the "file" which is the file within the zipped file that I want returned. GetFile is the actual program being run so I didn't think I could add a path after it before the "?". I could instead of doing "ttp://bla.bla.bla/example/GetFile?zipfile=rich.zip&file=TEST1%2FTEST2%2FTEST.ZIP" I could do "ttp://bla.bla.bla/example/GetFile?zipfile=rich.zip&file=TEST1/TEST2/TEST.ZIP" but that had problems when sending it by a HREF. Is there anything within my program that I can sent to force it to use a file name. ie "application/octet-stream;some magic here" or somethng in the header?
rkrenek

rkrenek,

unfortunately I know of no other way to do using MIME-magic. My experience (and look at the Mozilla source) tells me that the browser determines the default filename by looking at the last component of the URL.

Yes , you can add a path after GetFile as in:
  http://bla.bla.bla/GetFile/test.zip?zipfile=rich.zip&file=test1%2Ftest2%2ftest.zip 
Check the PATH_INFO environment when your script gets called and you'll see it in there.

Give it a try.

  Tobias

generate a page with your getfile.exe that contains
<script>
document.location.href="http://wherevere.com/test.zip";
</script>

If you want to be really cute you can even do this in a new window using window.open, this is what I do.

thoellri,
Thanks! Your last comment worked and will work perfectly for what I need to do. If you could istead of posting a comment post an answer here so I can give you the points for the answer. Or if you know tell me how to give the points to you.

Thanks a million,
rkrenek

rkrenek,

good to hear that you solved the problem. Unfortunately my friend jhurst posted an answer. You need to reject his answer first, before I can answer :-0

  Tobias