Hi,
You could use the <META refresh ... HTML
For instance, when the request for a part is sent to the server,
the response can present the new list of blocks, without the requested
one and the <META refresh should point to a scripts which "uploads"
the data block as an attachment.
Hope this is clear enough.
Cheers,
Catalin
"Jean-Christian Imbeault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> I've asked about this before but could not get a working solution.
>
> I have a database. Users put data in the DB :) I have a page with a list
> of accessible data "block". Each "block" has a button next to it.
>
> When a user click a button what I would like is:
>
> - I extract the data block from the DB
> - I send the data to the browser as a file download so the user can save
> the data block to disk. (i.e. a save-file-as dialog comes up)
> - I mark the data block as inaccessible
> - I reload the page and present a new list. The data block the user as
> just selected is no longer in the list.
>
> I have figure out how to force a file download using:
>
> header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=aFile");
> header("Content-type: application");
>
> The problem I have is that I need a way of send the user back to list
> page so I can regenerate a new listing. I can't use header("Location")
> because I've already started an output stream (the download).
>
> Some suggested using this header:
>
> header("Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"-Boundary-12399\"");
>
> But I could quite get it to work. The example code I have been trying to
> get to work make Netscape open a save-as dialog three times and on IE 6
> just prints everything in the browser window. This is the code:
>
> (suggested by Marek Kilimajer)
> <?
> header("Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"-Boundary-12399\"");
>
> print "---Boundary-12399\r\n";
> print "Content-Type: text/html\r\n";
> print "\r\n";
>
> //HTML code goes here
>
> print "\n";
> print "---Boundary-12399\r\n";
> print "Content-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n";
> print "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=foo.tar.gz\r\n\r\n";
> readfile("./foo.tar.gz");
>
> print "---Boundary-12399--\r\n";
> print "\r\n";
> ?>
>
>
> I'm sure someone has done this before :) What is the "correct" way to
> achieve this effect? Is multipart content-type the way to go?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jean-Christian Imbeault
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