[ale] OT: content-disposition and client-side perl

[James P. Kinney III]

It sounds like the perl app doesn't accept/understand the sequencing
from the web call. Maybe the perl app need to be simply passed a URL to
get the data file instead of being shoved it. I'm not sure how to pass a
data file to an external app. Passing a string should be easy enough.
This also would allow the appearance of faster start-up time. The app 
can start building the on-screen window while the download thread grabs
the data file.

On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 01:20, jenn at colormaria.com wrote:
> I'm trying to do the following, and I don't even know where to start
> looking forassistance:
> 
> 0 - User registers application in browser to handle .cex (custom extension,
> as an example only) with a client side perl script I've written.
> 1 - User hits web application, which generates text for them to d/l.
> 2 - Web app sends these headers:
>       content-type = application/cex;
>       content-disposition = inline; filename=myfile.cex;
>       content-length = 1024;
> 
> 3) perl script on client side reads in data and does its thing (using
> perl/TK,this is a windows app, blech).
> 
> So I've got 0-2 working great.  And if I *download* the file, I can run
> the perlscript just fine.  The missing piece is, how on earth can I make perl read
> thedata being pushed by the browser as if it were STDIN ??
> 
> If anyone has any resources for something like this, search phrases to hit
> google/devshed with, anything at all I would be eternally grateful.   In
> theoryit should be doable but I am boggled as to how.
> 
> TIA!
> jenn
> 
> 
> 
> 
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