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Re: [cgiapp] using run mode names to provide file name extensions


Mark Stosberg wrote:
> I'm generating a ".zip" file through CGI::App today.
> 
> Because I send the "application/zip" mime type with it, it opens in 
> The Ark decompression tool on my Linux desktop automatically.
> 
> But Ark is a little confused. It wants to confirm if the non-standard
> extension is correct. This happens because My URL ends like this:
> 
> /script.cgi/zip_file_download
> 
> I want to avoid this nagging. 
> 
> So I add this run mode mapping:
> 
>  $self->run_modes( 'download.zip' => 'zip_file_download' );
> 
> Now the run mode is named "download.zip", and Ark is happy.

What happens if you send it a Content-Disposition header to give the
file a name?

"Content-Dispositioni: attached; filename=download.zip";


-- 
Michael Peters
Developer
Plus Three, LP


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