[chasnhisimac]

Does anyone know what you can do in the HTML or on the server-side (Apache) to make a certain link always download the file instead of trying to interpret/load it in the window.

In specific, I want a link that will force it to download .jpg's and .mov's.

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[reader50]

stuff / archive / encode the files. A .sit, .zip, .tar file will (usually) download when clicked. The browser seems to be in control of the download option, rather than the page code. I could be wrong.

[chasnhisimac]

Originally posted by reader50:
<STRONG>stuff / archive / encode the files. A .sit, .zip, .tar file will (usually) download when clicked. The browser seems to be in control of the download option, rather than the page code. I could be wrong.</STRONG>

That's not gunna do it. I need this to work for any .mov or .jpg I have, and there are a lot because it loads them from a database.

[John Nicholas]

Originally posted by chasnhisimac:
<STRONG>Does anyone know what you can do in the HTML or on the server-side (Apache) to make a certain link always download the file instead of trying to interpret/load it in the window.

In specific, I want a link that will force it to download .jpg's and .mov's.

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You need to do this on the server side. If you are using PHP for example you might have a line like this

header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=download.mov");

then code that reads the file and writes it out, probably fpassthru()

The 'filename=' part tells the browser what filename to use

[Raman]

I think you can use content-type OR content-disposition, but not both.

Also, you're gonna have fun in IE because regardless of what type of data you tell IE, it sniffs the information to see if it knows what it is - if it does then I'll try to open it up in a helper program if possible, if not then it'll ask the user to download it.

I'm pretty sure IE 4.0sp2 + do this.