From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-07-31T18:43:14+09:00
Subject: Re: CGI: triggering a file download & having a page appear

2007/7/31, Frank Reiff <reiff@publicspace.net>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm fairly new to fast-cgi/CGI programming and I have a particular
> problem:
>
> When people click on a download link, I want the download to start (zip
> file) AND an installation page to appear that explains how to use the
> downloaded file.
>
> This is easily done in JavaScript: show the installation page and
> trigger the download via the Body.onLoad handler, but it would be nicer
> to do it all on the server side..
>
> Is there any way of triggering two HTTP responses for one request?

No. One request, one response.  Maybe you can do a multipart response
but I have no experience with that myself.

Kind regards

robert