[thelist] Stop Word, Excel, PDF loading into browser

At 12:05 PM 12/21/99 +1300, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Is it possible to provide Word (.doc), Excel (.xls), and PDF documents for 
>download/save, rather than display within the browser chrome?
>
>I have a customer who wants CVs of contractors available for download.  I 
>want people to be able to save them to disk, to take them away with them.
>
>At the moment I have a message "To download/save, right click and select 
>'Save Target As..'" (or save link as for NN).  Thats a pain, is there a 
>better way?

This is a question of the server configuration. The server has to told that 
certain "MIME-types" (as defined by the file extension) are to be 
transmitted as files rather than displayed as HTML files.


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