Dreamweaver - notification when a file is downloaded

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notification when a file is downloaded

Luit Krol

2004-06-10, 12:14 pm

Hi,
A question from a newbie on using dreamweaver. I put some documents on my
site for downloading. Is it possible to receive a e-mail when someone
downloaded a
file from the site? Even which document is downloaded?

Thanks
Regards
Luit

Dan Vendel *GOF*

2004-06-10, 12:14 pm

Luit Krol wrote:
> Hi,
> A question from a newbie on using dreamweaver. I put some documents on my
> site for downloading. Is it possible to receive a e-mail when someone
> downloaded a
> file from the site? Even which document is downloaded?
>
> Thanks
> Regards
> Luit
>
>

Yes, I suppose you can have a mailform with just hidden fields and using
a formmail script attached to e.g. the download link. Or make the
download link open a new page that sends such form onLoad and then
automatically (with a refresh meta tag) goes to the file that's supposed
to be downloaded.

Something like that...

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Michael Fesser

2004-06-10, 7:14 pm

.oO(Luit Krol)

>A question from a newbie on using dreamweaver. I put some documents on my
>site for downloading. Is it possible to receive a e-mail when someone
>downloaded a file from the site? Even which document is downloaded?

Sure, all you need is a server-side script handling the request.

Currently I'm playing around with such things (besides others), a
download-URL would look like this:

http://www.example.com/download/foo.bar

On the server this is internally redirected to

http://www.example.com/download.php?request=foo.bar

Now my download script can handle the request, check if the requested
file exists, send it back to the client and update some counter in a
database (or send an e-mail if i want).

Micha