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Re: http redirection and download

by bigboard (Initiate)
on Sep 24, 2001 at 17:39 UTC ( [id://114314]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to http redirection and download

Thank you both very much for your help, I've used the HTML 'refresh' method, and it works a treat: 
my $url="executeable.exe";

print "<meta http-equiv=\"Refresh\" Content=\"0;URL=$url\">\n\n";

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Rea: http redirection and download
by baku (Scribe) on Sep 24, 2001 at 22:18 UTC

    For a `real' header: 

    print <<HTTP;
Content-Type: text/html
Refresh: 0;URL=http://www.MySite.DOM/myfile.tar.bz2

<html>
<head><title> tnx </title></head>
<body><h1> thank you </h1></body>
</html>
HTTP

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    To save some CPU cycles, you can make that into an "unparsed" file (on my Apache box, by putting a .http extension on it) with the HTTP headers and the HTML together. The user sees only an HTML page, but there's this magic when they load it from your server that gives them the file.

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