Thank you.

artsapimp — Thu, 05 Jul 2001 04:02:41 +0000

Thank you for the replies.

1. The Meta thing is exactly what I needed, thanks.

2. That is pretty much where I'm at right now where it either downloads or launches depending on what's installed on the computer. The only reason I thought it should be possible is because yahoo! mail asks you if you want to view or download attachments. I don't know what they're doing different.

Adam Oberdorfer — Wed, 04 Jul 2001 16:50:11 +0000

Whether a file downloads or opens in your browser is based on your web browsers MIME settings. For example if user A tried to download a Microsoft Word document and has Microsoft Word 2000 the word document may open in his browser within the Microsoft Word viewer. On the other hand if use B tries for download a Microsoft Word document and has no Word viewer installed he will be prompted for what do with the file (open from server or save to disk).

One option is to ZIP the file (I don't care for this option) as Jack mentioned or you can suggest that the visitor "right click and select "save target as" to save this file to your hard drive". There should not be any problem linking most documents however documents with extensions that are used in browsers will usually trigger the browser to open them rather then save them.

Jack Michaelson — Wed, 04 Jul 2001 14:17:17 +0000

Possible answer for question # 2: Zip the file!

mjames — Wed, 04 Jul 2001 02:52:26 +0000

1. Put this in your HEAD tags:
<META http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">'

2. I'm not sure I understand your question. Can't you just link to the file name and it will prompt to download?