Re: Download Link

by Andrew McFarland <aamcf(at)aamcf.co.uk>

Date:	Wed, 14 Aug 2002 21:51:26 +0100
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At 15:03 13/08/02 +0100, David Artiss wrote:
>Well, is there a way to force a link to do this rather than the browser
>display the results ?

Generally, you can never force a browser to do anything.

In particular, you can never force a browser to download a link rather than 
displaying it. Even if you put it in a zip file the end user can have their 
browser set to do something other than display a dialog box.

I suppose you could serve it with a made up MIME type, but I think that 
would cause other problems.

Why do you want to do this? There might be a better solution to the problem.

Andrew

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