Tony Frasketi wrote:
Hello Listers
I'm trying to find a way to force a download dialogue box to come up
when the user clicks on a link on a web page (the link will primarily be
for htm, .txt files on the server). Normally when the user left clikcs
on the link the .htm or .txt file appears in the browser. And also
normally when the user right clicks on the link, he is given the choice
to 'Save Link Target as' in order to download the file.
What I'm looking for is to avoid right clicking and choosing to save the
file.... Is there a way to implement left clicking the link and
automatically bringing up a "Save As" dialogue box?
I've googled for such things as "mime type download save as.... etc" but
came up with dead ends....
TIA
Tony Frasketi
Most browsers will provide this functionality if the return header is
"application/octet-stream" rather than "text/html" or the like. In the
case of IE you may have to fool the browser into thinking it is getting
something different than it is based on the URL, because it likes to
look there for a file extension to determine the file type too.
HTH,
http://danconia.org
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