WEIGHT-10 re: [Javascript] javascript:downloadNow

[Peter Brunone]

   IIRC, this is determined by browser-registered mimetypes and server-generated content type headers, i.e. you can't do that with client script.  Hopefully I'm wrong and someone else will have a great idea for you; in the meantime, you can tell your users to right-click on the link and select "Save Target As".

 From: Nick Baker CF at isbc.com

Peter,

Download opens the file
in the browser. I want the user to download the tile to disk.

Thanks,

Nick

At 02:39 PM 3/17/2005, you wrote:
>Hi Nick,
>
> Welcome to Javascript :)
>
> Actually, you don't need JS at all for a download link. Links 
> already...er...link to files, like this:
>
>Download
>
> I don't know what this crazy function is, but you don't need it for 
> what you're doing.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Peter
>
>From: Nick Baker CF at isbc.com
>
>Brand new to Javascript and need to put a link to download a MS Word doc
>file. I see the all the time,
>but doesn't work for me.
>
>href="javascript:downloadNow('http://shipmates.com/info.doc','','')">Download
>
>I suspect that I need the function? If so where can I get that?
>
>Or???
>
>Thanks,
>
>Nick
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