Re: file targets

Lothar Scholz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-ruby
Organization Scriptolutions
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Daniel,

Tuesday, February 3, 2004, 8:32:41 PM, you wrote:

DB> Hi,

DB> On several forums, I have seen links of the form

DB> http://site/download.php?id=230923

DB> and when the link is followed, a file download follows, and the filename
DB> will be something like reasonable-name.tar.gz or something.

DB> Does anyone know how this is done? or if it can be done with ruby?

DB> db

Use the "Content-Type" and "Content-Disposition" header for this. Look
at the MIME RFC (or to one of your message in your mail reader) for exact syntax.



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