CGI script to count downloads
Walter Hofmann
spamdropbox at myrealbox.com
Wed Apr 4 13:08:46 EDT 2001
On Tue, 03 Apr 2001 17:25:34 +1200, Greg Ewing <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
>I'm trying to write a script that will keep a count
>of the number of times a file is downloaded. So far,
>the script just takes the name of the required file,
>opens the file, and passes on its contents.
Use the following commands to redirect the browser to the "real" URL
where the file is located:
print "Location: http://server/real/url.tar.gz"
print "Status: 302 Found"
print
This will make sure the browser gets the right name and you don't have
to pipe the whole file through the cgi script.
Walter
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