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Author Re: create download links
darrel

2005-12-29, 10:18 pm


>I am trying to create links that will download - not open the files I want
>my
> users to receive. I have searched this seemingly easy topic with no luck.
> When
> I create a link to the file it opens- What I want is a download dialog
> letting
> users save the file.
> The file is a .rpx


Your options:

a) write text telling the person 'right-click and choose SAVE AS... to
download'

or

b) ZIP the file, and hope they can figure out how to unzip it or don't mind
unzipping it

or

c) Send the file to the browser as an 'octet-stream'. This forces the
download window to appear. This requires that you use some server side
programming.

-Darrel


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