cgi script headers - help

[Peter Hansen]

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