[thelist] Initiating a Download

[Timothy J. Luoma]

Jake Aust wrote:
> Is there a way to do this with PHP? JavaScript? I know I've seen it done,
> but I don't know how to do it.

Usually this is done by setting the MIME type to "application/octet-stream"

If you have htaccess for the directory, use

AddType application/octet-stream gif
AddType application/octet-stream jpg

(note: this will apply to all files with those extensions in the directory)

You can also do this with PHP... there is a discussion of it here

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php

Search Google for "octet-stream force download" for more

TjL


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