From: Detlef Reichl <detlef.reichl@...>
Date: 2007-11-05T01:28:33+09:00
Subject: send file from CGI

Hi,

in a webapplication, a user can select from some options. Depending on
the selection some files are packed together in a zip file and get send
to the user. So far it works perfect, but the zip file is not recognized
from the browser and it displays the data as garbage.

The code that sends the data:


  print @cgi.header("type" => "application/zip")
  print @cgi.header("length" => File.size(zipfile).to_s)
  
  file = File.new(zipfile, "r" )
  while true
    begin
      data = file.sysread(65536)
    rescue EOFError
      break
    else
      @cgi.print data
    end
  end



Any suggestions?

Cheers
detlef