Dear wise and powerful Monks of Perl,

I'm running a Perl script to download files from a website (and thank you again Joost for all your help), and it won't re-direct at the end of the script.

Given the script below (and the fact that I'm not a Perl but a Basis BBx/BBj programmer)...am I using the correct method of re-direct at the end of the script?

#!/www/perl/bin/perl.exe
#
# filednload.pl
#
# File Download Utility
#

use CGI;
use strict "vars";

my $cgiobject = new CGI;
my $filename = $cgiobject->param('filename');
my $filedir = $cgiobject->param('filedir');
my $movecode = $cgiobject->param('movecode');
my $usrcod = $cgiobject->param('usrcod');
my $userselect = $cgiobject->param('userselect');
my $filekey = $cgiobject->param('filekey');
my $server=$ENV{'SERVER_NAME'};
my $browser=$ENV{'HTTP_USER_AGENT'};
my $fileroot=$ENV{'DOCUMENT_ROOT'};
my $program = "DBXDND";
my $origpath =  $fileroot . "/" . $filedir . "/" . $filename;
my $flsiz = -s $origpath;

print "Content-Type: application/octet-stream\n";
print "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename\n";
print "Content-Length: $flsiz\n\n";

open (DLFILE,"<$origpath") or die("cannot open file ");
binmode DLFILE;
binmode STDOUT;
my $buffer = '';
while(read(DLFILE,$buffer,1024)) { print $buffer; }
close DLFILE;

my $fileout=$fileroot . "/Temp/" . $usrcod . ".txt";
open (USER,">$fileout");
print USER "USRCOD=" . $usrcod . "\n";
print USER "BROWSER=" . $browser . "\n";
print USER "PROGRAM=" . $program . "\n";
print USER "FILENAME=" . $filename . "\n";
print USER "SERVER=" . $server . "\n";
print USER "DNLDDIR=" . $filedir . "\n";
print USER "DNLDFILE=" . $filename . "\n";
print USER "DNLDPATH=" . $origpath . "\n";
print USER "MOVECODE=" . $movecode . "\n";
print USER "USERSELECT=". $userselect . "\n";
print USER "FILEKEY=". $filekey . "\n";
close USER;

print $cgiobject->redirect("http://" . $server . "/cgi/cgi.exe?usrcod=
+" . $usrcod);
[download]

Thanking you in advance for the help,

Anton...

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