Hi,
(This question may be stupid, but I just can't find the answer...)
How can I make the browser downlaod a cgi script from /cgi-bin/.
Obviously I can't make a link to it with <a=href="/cgi-bin/script.cgi>,
since tha script will be executed then.
I see how Lutz in PP2E prints the script on the screen, but I want the
user to get the "save file" message box?
Same thing. What about a binary file? Printing a binary file with
getfile.cgi from PP2E is just silly. The surfer must be promped to save.
So, what I want is a script like getfile.cgi, that downloads insted of
prints the file.
(Maybe this is more a HTTP/HTML question than a Python question...)
Clueless,
-Øystein 2  5092 
Øystein Johansen <oy*****@gnubg. org> writes:
[...] How can I make the browser downlaod a cgi script from
/cgi-bin/. Obviously I can't make a link to it with
<a=href="/cgi-bin/script.cgi>, since tha script will be executed then.
I see how Lutz in PP2E prints the script on the screen, but I want the
user to get the "save file" message box?
Don't put it in the cgi-bin? There will be other ways, too, all of
which are entirely dependent on your web server and its configuration.
Anything regarded by your server as a cgi-script *shouldn't* be
downloadable, because that would risk security problems. Some servers
will always regard anything ending in ".cgi" or ".py" or whatever as
CGI scripts, some will regard anything in a particular directory as
CGI scripts, some will do other things.
Same thing. What about a binary file? Printing a binary file with
getfile.cgi from PP2E is just silly. The surfer must be promped to
save. So, what I want is a script like getfile.cgi, that downloads
insted of prints the file.
I don't understand any of this paragraph.
(Maybe this is more a HTTP/HTML question than a Python question...)
None of the above: entirely a web server question.
John
If you want to trigger the browser to ask 'save this file?' then you
gotta pass it a Content-Type that will trigger that.
At the top of your cgi script, get rid of 'Content-Type: text/html\n\n'
and replace it with 'Content-Type: application/octet-stream' or
something like that.
This page: http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/...tent-type.html
describes some IE bugs. Good luck! If you figure it all out, can you
post a message back here for future reference?
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 21:28:46 +0200
Øystein Johansen <oy*****@gnubg. org> wrote: Hi,
(This question may be stupid, but I just can't find the answer...)
How can I make the browser downlaod a cgi script from /cgi-bin/.
Obviously I can't make a link to it with <a=href="/cgi-bin/script.cgi>,
since tha script will be executed then.
I see how Lutz in PP2E prints the script on the screen, but I want the
user to get the "save file" message box?
Same thing. What about a binary file? Printing a binary file with
getfile.cgi from PP2E is just silly. The surfer must be promped to save.
So, what I want is a script like getfile.cgi, that downloads insted of
prints the file.
(Maybe this is more a HTTP/HTML question than a Python question...)
Clueless,
-Øystein
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