Re: Sending a pdf file with perl

Bill H wrote:
In one of my perl scripts I need to send a visitor a pdf file when
they visit a web page. Since the pdf file is not in "public" space on
the server, I need to send it to them instead of using a
"Location: ....". I use MIME:Lite for email pdf's on another site, is
there a similar thing for sending pdf's to a browser or can I use
Mime:Lite?

When you let the visitors download a file, you print to STDOUT, which is quite another thing. Example code:

open my $fh, '<', "$path/$filename" or die $!;
binmode STDOUT;
print "Content-Type: application/pdf\n",
"Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename\n",
'Content-Length: ' . (stat "$path/$filename")[7] . "\n\n";
while ( read $fh, my $buffer, 1024 ) {
print $buffer;
}

--
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl
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