This is a little something that I have been using. Modify at your discretion. It gets the file name and data from a table and prints everything out to the browser printing the name under Content-disposition so that it doesn't prompt the user to save the pl file. On a side note: If you don't have the file name, but know the file extension, you can always replace the name with the epoch returned by time().sub DownloadFile {
my $id = shift;
$sth = $dbh->prepare(qq{
select name,data from foo
where id = ? and
type = 'file'
}) or Errors("Could not prepare SQL for file $id: $DBI::errstr");
$rc = $sth->execute($id)
or Errors("Could not execute SQL for file $id: $DBI::errstr")
+;
my ($name,$data) = $sth->fetchrow_array();
my $size = length($data);
print "Content-disposition: inline; filename=$name\n";
print "Content-Length: $size\n";
print "Content-Type: application/octet-stream\n\n";
print $data;
return(1);
}
I hope that helps!
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