Re: file targets

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 02:37:44PM -0500, Kirk Haines wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Daniel Bretoi wrote:
> 
> > On several forums, I have seen links of the form
> > 
> > http://site/download.php?id=230923
> > 
> > and when the link is followed, a file download follows, and the filename
> > will be something like reasonable-name.tar.gz or something.
> > 
> > Does anyone know how this is done? or if it can be done with ruby?
> 
> Issue a browser redirect to the desired filename.  And can't just about 
> everything be done with Ruby?  ;)

   I suppose he means "producing" on the fly some content, and make the
browser download it with a controlled filename.

   If it's so, you must use the following headers:

Content-Type: application/pdf
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=myfilename.ext

   HTH,

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