Time to seek the wisdom of the Perl Monks again...
I'm trying to write a CGI script that will turn a directory
into a tar.gz archive, then return that archive to the
user. The problem is, I probably later won't have the
disk space to make a temporary file; is there a way I can
send the output of tar directly to the browser without
buffering?
Also, is there a way to modify the CGI headers such that
when the browser pops up the "Save As..." dialog, the
default filename is something like "backup.tar.gz" instead
of "backup.cgi"?
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