[thelist] Force browser to download file

[michael ensor]

Usually I bite my tongue before saying anything on this list, but:
If I visited any site that "forced" my browser to download a WORD  file I
would publish that to the world as a site to be avoided at all  costs.



----- Original Message -----
From: "David U." <davidu at everydns.net>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: [thelist] Force browser to download file


> Peter Duchateau wrote:
> > Is it possible to force a browser to download a file in stead of
> > opening it? E.g. Word of PDF files ?
>
> google for "application/octet-stream" and "php" or "perl" or whatever your
> language of choice is.
>
> -davidu
>
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