Direct Download Link with PERL - CGI

There are times that you need to make sure you record or filter before your visitors download your files. Here are codes if you are running CGI using PERL:


open(FILE, "../file/$fn"); #file is the directory and $fn is the filename
@file=<FILE>;
close(FILE);

print "Content-Type:application/x-download\n";
print "Content-Disposition:attachment;filename=$fn\n\n";
print @file;


Note that you don't need to print the html header :"Content-type: text/html\n\n" before this. You can also add the Content-Length header so that the browser know the size of your file but the size has to be accurate to avoid error.