tlphipps wrote on 11/5/2008 8:45 AM:
> The default action for handling .mp3 downloads is determined by the
> user's browser and you cannot change that from your end. But you can
> create specific server-side headers that will instruct the browser to
> download the file as an 'attachment' instead of trying to simply open
> the document.
>
> The specific headers you need are:
> "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="01-01-08-PM.mp3"
There are a couple of new header options recognized by IE8 that improve
security for IE and tell it to force download. They look like this:
Content-Type: audio/mpeg; authoritative=true;
X-Download-Options: noopen
You can read about "authoritative=true;" and "X-Download-Options" here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/07/02/ie8-security-part-v-comprehensive-protection.aspx
- Bil
