Content Disposition header and file contents sequence...

["John N. Brahy" <jb...@ad2.com>]

This is the relevant part of my handler for a link that I want to force
a download for. I know it's content-disposition but for some reason I
can not get it to actually download the file. I get the download dialog
and I choose the location to save it but when I open the document it is
empty. I've tried changing the sequence of the items but it never works.


my $filename = "/usr/local/app/media/videos/downloads/preview.mov";
unless ($fileFH = Apache::File->new($filename)){
	$r->log_error("couldn't open $filename for reading: $!");
	return SERVER_ERROR;
}
$r->content_type('video/quicktime'); 
$r->headers_out->set('Content-Disposition' =>
"attachment;filename=$downloadFilename");
$r->send_fd($fileFH);
$r->send_http_header();
return OK;





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Re: Content Disposition header and file contents sequence...

[Geoffrey Young <ge...@modperlcookbook.org>]

> $r->headers_out->set('Content-Disposition' =>
> "attachment;filename=$downloadFilename");

try

  $r->headers_out->set('Content-Disposition' => ' inline;
filename=$downloadFilename');

> $r->send_fd($fileFH);
> $r->send_http_header();

those definitely need to be reversed - you need to send the headers before
you send any output.

--Geoff