[thelist] Forcing download dialog box

[Anthony Baratta]

At 04:40 PM 2/14/2002, Dave Stevens wrote:
>is there anyway to force the user's browser to bring up the "download
>file" dialog box (or equivalent in non-IE browsers) using just HTML?
>I need an mp3 to download, not play from its current location.

If you have access to the mime types, like via .htaccess in Apache, you can
set the mime type of the file to octet-stream and fool most browsers. IE
will still look at the extension and do what Bill wants it to do.
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