Re: PDF file downloads from protected directory

At 1:46 PM -0500 on 7/18/02, Hank Marquardt wrote:


> This would probably need to be scripted in some server side language ...
> though no matter how you slice it if you start streaming a PDF file with
> application/httpd-pdf as the type (or whatever the correct type is), it
> will launch the plugin if it's available on the client ... you could
> work around that by putting it in a zip file or something but that's
> kind of kludgy as well.

Couldn't you set up the link to use ftp://<URL> instead of http://<URL> to
force a download instead of opening the file with a plugin?

Jeremy Duncanson

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