[Catalyst] Using Content-Disposition Header

[Thomas L. Shinnick]

At 12:18 8/30/2005, Mutant wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Is there any way to use the 'Content-Disposition' header with Catalyst to prompt the user to download a file? 
>
>Using the Apache module, I'd simply set up the header, open the file, and print the contents to STDOUT.
>
>Under Catalyst doing this, or setting $c->res->body() to the contents causes the file to get corrupted (because it's treating it as text?)
>
>Any help would be appreciated.

Others will no doubt know better, but this from my notes:

Use the 'attachment' keyword on content-disposition to hint to the browser that this file should not be displayed but rather saved:
    Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Culver_OL_2.LAS"

Use the 'name' on the content-type as yet another way (in addition to the above) to suggest what the saved filename should default to:
    Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="Culver_OL_2.LAS"

Of course the actual mime type _should_ be accurate, like "application/pdf", but using "application/octet-stream" is supposed to help the browser decided to save as a file rather than try to display.

>Thanks,
>Sam.