[Catalyst] Force file download

[Andy Grundman]

Kevin Old wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm generating a spreadsheet for a page in a site I'm developing in
> Catalyst, and I'd like to force the user to download the file.  This
> is working quite well, when I make the content_type:
> 
> $c->res->headers->content_type('application/octet-stream');
> 
> I'd also like to force a filename too, but this doesn't seem to work:
> $c->res->headers->header('Content-Disposition: attachment;
> filename=search.xls');
> 
> Any ideas what I might be able to do to get this working?

See the fullcsv method in the ServerDB Report controller, it does 
exactly what you need. :)

http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/file/trunk/examples/ServerDB/lib/ServerDB/C/Report.pm

-Andy