[Catalyst] Sanity Check -- requesting feedback on chaining approach

[will trillich]

Okay, so there's a link in a web page that the browser sees that tells it
"when following *this* link, ask for a CSV file, as opposed to that normal
HTML hooey you usually ask for." How do we do that, if not thru a URL?

Or maybe I'm missing something really obvious...


On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Dave Rolsky <autarch at urth.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, will trillich wrote:
>
>  Hmm. Curious about the inline comment there -- how do you do CSV based on
>> accept-header?
>>
>
> You look for an Accept header that specifies text/csv (or whatever the
> content type is) vs text/html.
>
> Or, if you're using a regular browser, you use a hack where you put
> something like content-type=3Dtext/csv in the query string.
>
> Catalyst::Action::REST provides basically everything you need to make this
> all work.
>
>
>
> -dave
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