cgi script headers - help

[Ajay]

thanks...that was it

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Ajay Brar,
CS Honours 2004
Smart Internet Technology Research Group


Quoting Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com>:

> Ajay wrote:
>
> > hi!
> >
> > i am generating a file on the fly and making a user download it.
> > print "Content-Type: application/model\n\n"
> > print "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=modeldef3\n"
> > print str
> >
> > i set the Content-Disposition to force a download dialog box and also
> give
> > the file a name.
> > however when i view the headers sent by my script, i have only
> > HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> > Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 02:26:48 GMT
> > Server: Apache/1.3.19 (Unix)
> > Connection: close
> > Content-Type: application/model
> >
> > why isn't the Content-Disposition header coming up?
>
> Probably because the previous line was terminated with three (3)
> newlines, thus marking the end of the header section...
>
> Note that print includes a newline normally, so including any
> other newlines will result in at least a double newline, which
> is the delimiter between header and body.
>
> -Peter
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