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

[Steve Hay <suppressed>]

Steve Comrie wrote:

> Setting $self->header_type('none'); followed by printing the headers
> yourself and then opening a file in the run-mode and printing it line by
> line and finally followed by return ''; *should* hypothetically solve the
> problem without relying on undocumented CGIApp features.
Exactly.  Yes, it does solve the problem - I've just tried it.  Thanks!

> A fairly un-elegant solution but then again it's a fairly irregular
> scenario. I'd imagine that if it's something an application will be doing
> regularly, a function in the superclass like:
>
> sub return_file_contents
> [snip]
>
> and could then be called at the bottom of the run-mode returning the file
> as:
>
> return $self->return_file_contents( '/usr/home/files/information.pdf',
> 'Product Information.pdf' );
Not a bad idea.  I'll give that a go too.

Cheers,
- Steve


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