About filetypes in link

[sasimca007]

Hello friends,
I have one smalll doubt that when we write a link with anchor tag we are giving the url as href to where it should redirect, my question is when we click that link the link willl automatically redirect to the url we had given, but my intension is when we click that link the file should be downloaded like
in some sites when we click a link the browser is asks for save the file (or) open that with that for any software. Like that i want the coding when we click the link the browser has to ask save this file or open this file.

My configuration is,
I am using modperl , Apache server, Linux operating system and the file type is CSV.

[Dormilich]

if the browser doesn't have the appropriate plugin or supports the file type natively, the download prompt will be the default action. otherwise you have to set the "content-disposition" header to "attachment".

[sasimca007]

Hai friend i searched in the internet, i found what u saying but nobody telling how to? can u please send me sample code please

[Dormilich]

e.g. this one (though slightly different)

[sasimca007]

Hi friend,
I tried that but it is telling that Invalid command 'Header', when i restarted the apache. May be a module should be install for that Header and one more thing i should tell you that is the filetype is not cvs it is csv. Sorry for confusing and wrong information.

[Dormilich]

which modules (besides mod_perl) are installed on the server?

[sasimca007]

Hi friend, thanks for the help i got it by using Apache::File module