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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
 

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AppConfig::CGI(3)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					 AppConfig::CGI(3)

NAME
AppConfig::CGI - Perl5 module for processing CGI script parameters. SYNOPSIS
use AppConfig::CGI; my $state = AppConfig::State->new(\%cfg); my $cgi = AppConfig::CGI->new($state); $cgi->parse($cgi_query); $cgi->parse(); # looks for CGI query in environment OVERVIEW
AppConfig::CGI is a Perl5 module which implements a CGI interface to AppConfig. It examines the QUERY_STRING environment variable, or a string passed explicitly by parameter, which represents the additional parameters passed to a CGI query. This is then used to update variable values in an AppConfig::State object accordingly. AppConfig::CGI is distributed as part of the AppConfig bundle. DESCRIPTION
USING THE AppConfig::CGI MODULE To import and use the AppConfig::CGI module the following line should appear in your Perl script: use AppConfig::CGI; AppConfig::CGI is used automatically if you use the AppConfig module and create an AppConfig::CGI object through the cgi() method. AppConfig::CGI is implemented using object-oriented methods. A new AppConfig::CGI object is created and initialised using the new() method. This returns a reference to a new AppConfig::CGI object. A reference to an AppConfig::State object should be passed in as the first parameter: my $state = AppConfig::State->new(); my $cgi = AppConfig::CGI->new($state); This will create and return a reference to a new AppConfig::CGI object. PARSING CGI QUERIES The "parse()" method is used to parse a CGI query which can be specified explicitly, or is automatically extracted from the "QUERY_STRING" CGI environment variable. This currently limits the module to only supporting the GET method. See AppConfig for information about using the AppConfig::CGI module via the cgi() method. AUTHOR
Andy Wardley, "<abw@wardley.org<gt"> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1997-2007 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved. Copyright (C) 1997,1998 Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO
AppConfig, AppConfig::State perl v5.16.3 2007-05-30 AppConfig::CGI(3)
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