cgi script headers - help

[Ajay]

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?

thanks

cheers

 

[Peter Hansen]

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

 

[Ajay]

thanks...that was it