[Catalyst] Catalyst::Response - send a file

[Dermot]

2008/8/19 Jonathan Rockway <jon at jrock.us>:
> * On Tue, Aug 19 2008, Dermot wrote:

>    $c->res->headers->content_type( $type );
>    $c->res->headers->content_length( $stat->size );
>    $c->res->headers->last_modified( $stat->mtime );
> ..
>        my $fh = IO::File->new( $full_path, 'r' );
> ..
>            binmode $fh;
>            $c->res->body( $fh );

>> This method will work well for binary files. I have opted
>> $c->response->header() method for now.
>
> You haven't described what that method is.

Please don't quote me out of context. The "This" referred to Bogdan
Lucaciu reply which was directly above my comments which you have
snipped.

> There are two things you need to do to send a file for download.
>
> 1) Set up the HTTP headers (Content-disposition) so that the browser
>   knows what to do.
>
> 2) Actually send the data.
>
> In your original post, you hand-waved sending the data.  A number of
> posters told you how to do it.  Now you're saying you've "opted [for
> the] header method".  That doesn't make any sense.
>
> So what exactly are you doing?


As per Carl Franks 2nd reply

> $c->response->header(
>    'Content-Disposition' => "attachment;filename=$name"
> );
>
> You'll still need the body($fh) bit to send the data, too.

$c->response has headers and header.

http://search.cpan.org/~mramberg/Catalyst-Runtime-5.7014/lib/Catalyst/Response.pm#$res-%3Eheader

I opted for the header method as stated by Carl Franks.

Thanx,
Dp.