CGI script to count downloads

[Walter Hofmann]

On Tue, 03 Apr 2001 17:25:34 +1200, Greg Ewing <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
>I'm trying to write a script that will keep a count
>of the number of times a file is downloaded. So far,
>the script just takes the name of the required file,
>opens the file, and passes on its contents.

Use the following commands to redirect the browser to the "real" URL
where the file is located:

print "Location: http://server/real/url.tar.gz"
print "Status: 302 Found"
print

This will make sure the browser gets the right name and you don't have
to pipe the whole file through the cgi script.

Walter