[ale] OT: content-disposition and client-side perl

[jenn at colormaria.com]

The idea is to sort of make the perl app work like adobe acrobat, where
the server pushes a stream of text for the app to interpret without
saving the stream to a physical file and then reading it in.  My only
frame of reference would be piping stdin to a script, so I'm really in
over my head here.

I've considered making the client-side perl app pull the file instead
of having the server push the file to the app, but the file is hidden
behind many layers of authentication and ssl and frankly, I'd rather
tackle trying to read pushed data than sort out logging in, hitting a
script with a request to fetch the file from its non-web-accessible
location, etc.

Thanks for the feedback...you've given me some ideas on new stuff to
search for on Google.  :)

jenn

> It sounds like the perl app doesn't accept/understand the sequencing
> from the web call. Maybe the perl app need to be simply passed a URL
to
> get the data file instead of being shoved it. I'm not sure how to pass
> a data file to an external app. Passing a string should be easy
enough.
> This also would allow the appearance of faster start-up time. The app
> can start building the on-screen window while the download thread
grabs
> the data file.
>
> On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 01:20, jenn at colormaria.com wrote:
>> I'm trying to do the following, and I don't even know where to start
>> looking forassistance:
>>
>> 0 - User registers application in browser to handle .cex (custom
>> extension, as an example only) with a client side perl script I've
>> written. 1 - User hits web application, which generates text for them
>> to d/l. 2 - Web app sends these headers:
>>       content-type = application/cex;
>>       content-disposition = inline; filename=myfile.cex;
>>       content-length = 1024;
>>
>> 3) perl script on client side reads in data and does its thing (using
>> perl/TK,this is a windows app, blech).
>>
>> So I've got 0-2 working great.  And if I *download* the file, I can
>> run the perlscript just fine.  The missing piece is, how on earth can
>> I make perl read thedata being pushed by the browser as if it were
>> STDIN ??
>>
>> If anyone has any resources for something like this, search phrases
to
>> hit google/devshed with, anything at all I would be eternally
>> grateful.   In theoryit should be doable but I am boggled as to how.
>>
>> TIA!
>> jenn
>>
>>
>>
>>
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