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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Perl CGI : unable to download the excel sheet from perl cgi page Post 302818139 by scriptscript on Friday 7th of June 2013 03:35:19 AM
Old 06-07-2013
Perl CGI : unable to download the excel sheet from perl cgi page
Hi All,

I have written an cgi perl script that displays an image(Excel image) and when clicked on that Image I need to download a excel sheet.

I made sure that excel sheet exists in the folder with the given name but still I am not able to download the sheet.

Code:

print "<center><table border=0>";
print "<tr><td aligh=left>";
print qq~<a href="$report_name"><img src="http://mywebsite.com/images/xlsx.png" width=40 height=40></a>~;
print qq~<a href="$report_name><img src="http://mywebsite.com/images/csv.jpg" width=40 height=40></a>~;

print "</td></tr>";
print "</table></center>";

I learned that we need to add the below lines for download the files using cgi perl.

Code:
print ("Content-Type:application/x-download\n");
print "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$report_name\n\n";

After adding ...

Code:
print ("Content-Type:application/x-download\n");
print "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$report_name\n\n";

print "<center><table border=0>";
print "<tr><td aligh=left>";
print qq~<a href="$report_name"><img src="http://mywebsite.com/images/xlsx.png" width=40 height=40></a>~;
print qq~<a href="$report_name><img src="http://mywebsite.com/images/csv.jpg" width=40 height=40></a>~;

print "</td></tr>";
print "</table></center>";

But only the above 2 lines on the browser and no luck...

Could anyone please let me know what went wrong ??

I am attaching the complete script with the thread.
(download statements are written in 311 and 312 lines)



Tons of thanks .....

Regards,
J
downloadtest.txt (10.3 KB) 
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

nup

NUP(1)							      General Commands Manual							    NUP(1)

NAME

       nup - multiple pages per sheet with dvi2ps

SYNOPSIS

       nup [ [ -p paper ] [ -2 ] [ -4 ] [ -8 ] [ -l ] [ -n ] ]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual page documents briefly the nup command.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the origi-
       nal command hadn't manual page.
       Nup puts multiple logical pages onto each physical sheet of paper with dvi2ps.  The input PostScript file should be of dvi2ps

       The -p paper option is to set the paper size which is available with dvi2ps.

       The -2 option is to put 2 logical pages on each sheet of paper.

       The -4 option is to put 4 logical pages on each sheet of paper.

       The -8 option is to put 8 logical pages on each sheet of paper.

       The -l option is to surround a page with frame.

       The -n option in not to shrink each logical pages.

EXAMPLES

       to print 2 pages in a sheet:
	      dvi2ps foo.dvi | nup -2 | lpr

       to print 8 pages in a B4 paper:
	      dvi2ps foo.dvi | nup -8 -p b4 | lpr

       to print 4 pages in a letter size paper with frame:
	      dvi2ps foo.dvi | nup -4 -p letter -l | lpr

       to print 2 B5 size pages in a B4 paper:
	      dvi2ps -o b5 foo.dvi | nup -2 -n -p b4  | lpr

SEE ALSO

       dvi2ps(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

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