[Catalyst] How to send raw HTTP response

[Chris Devine]

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt S Trout [mailto:dbix-class at trout.me.uk]
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 13:48
To: The elegant MVC web framework
Subject: Re: [Catalyst] How to send raw HTTP response

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 08:35:14PM +0200, Christian Lackas wrote:
>> Hi Everybody,
>>
>> is it possible for a controller method to directly produce the raw HTTP
response?
>> My application generates a (potentially large)) ZIP file on the fly,
>> which I don't want to store (on disk or in memory) but rather send it
>> directly to the client while producing it.
>>
>> In a CGI script I use Archive::Zip such as
>>
>>     print CGI::header(...);
>>     $ZIP->writeToFileHandle(*STDOUT);
>>     for my $f (@files) {
>>         $ZIP->addFile($f, basename($f));
>>     }
>>
>> How can I achieve something similar under Catalyst?
>
>Just call $c->write($chunk) with each chunk of data as you get it.
>
>Catalyst will automatically send headers before the first chunk for you.
>
>Do -not- rely on STDOUT being an appropriate filehandle to print to, that's
an accident of the engine design >and could easily go away.
>
>--

All,

Using a method like this, how would you set the filename of the downloaded
data in the browser?

Thanks,
Chris


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