Re: Problems with downloading files

At 12:57 AM 20/03/00 +0530, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>We have a page up on one of our sites where a number of exe files are
>available for download - http://www.wings2000.com/wownet/wowfree.htm
>
>We have direct links to the exe files, and I have personally never
>experienced any problems downloading with Netscape, with the files
>getting saved as exe files on the local disk as expected.

The thing is, you have inserted the file to download as the action of a=20
form so in fact I believe IE is the browser that behaves correctly here,=20
this method looks strange to me.  I think it would be best to use a=20
straight HTML link for this purpose.  I never had any problem downloading=20
.exe files in either Netscape or IE when normal links are used.

Btw,  you have numerous HTML coding errors on that page including nesting=20
errors, many unclosed tags (like FONT and others) and your second form's=20
opening and closing tags are in an invalid location (they should be either=
=20
completely outside of the opening and closing TABLE tags or completely=20
within a TD tag, there should never be anything inserted in between TR, TH=
=20
or TD tags).  Also, for what it's worth, you are using an HTML 3.2 DOCTYPE=
=20
declaration but are using many elements or attributes that aren't part of=20
that standard like the FACE attribute of FONT tags.  You should probably be=
=20
using HTML 4.01 Transitional instead.

HTH!

St=E9phane Bergeron

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