Re: [cgiapp] How to download a dynamically generated file

[Steve Hay <suppressed>]

Eric Andreychek wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Steve Comrie wrote:
>  
>
> > You should be able to use the argument of 'none' to the CGIApp header_type()
> > method.
> > -------------------
> > my $filename= 'the_pdf_file.pdf";
> > my $output = get_pdf_contents();
> > my $header= "Content-Type: application/octetstream\n";
> >     $header .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename\n\n";
> >
> > $self->header_type('none');
> > return $header.$output;
> >    
>
> Agreed, but that only surpresses the headers.  You still have to read in
> the entire PDF at once, and then pass it around as a reference.
I think what Steve C was suggesting (correct me if I'm wrong) was for 
the run-mode to output the headers and the PDF file itself (which it can 
do in small chunks at a time, instead of all in one go like the example 
above does), and then set the header type to "none" and return a null 
string.

Then, C::A's run() method has been instructed to not output headers, and 
has no content body to output either -- the run-mode has already done it 
all!

This is the answer I've been looking for.  Thanks, guys!

- Steve


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