Question

I have perl script which is setting header with following command

print "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=test.csv\n\n";

This script is behaving differently when deployed on web server IIS and Apache.

When the code is deployed on apache web server, I am able to download the file test.csv on android mobile.

But When the same script is deployed on IIS server, download is always unsuccessful on android mobile.

Note: but the download work like charm in any desktop browser for both web server.

Following is response header from IIS

(Status-Line)   HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 Server Microsoft-IIS/6.0
 Content-Disposition    attachment; filename=test.csv
 X-Powered-By   ASP.NET
 Date   Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:10:59 GMT
 Connection close

Following is response header from Apache

(Status-Line)   HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 Date   Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:12:33 GMT
 Server Apache/2.2.22 (Win32)
 Content-Disposition    attachment; filename=test.csv
 Keep-Alive timeout=5, max=100
 Connection Keep-Alive
 Transfer-Encoding  chunked
 Content-Type   text/plain

can any one help me in resolving this issue?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Thank you very much for your support.

I tried for following perl code and it helped me to resolve the issue

# Set the header using following way
print "Content-Type: text/plain", "\n";
print "Content-length: $length", "\n";
print "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=test.csv\n\n";

note : $length is a variable which store the file content length as shown below

my $csv = "testing";
my $length = length $csv;

Thanks!