Wiggins d'Anconia wrote:
Most browsers will provide this functionality if the return header is
"application/octet-stream" rather than "text/html" or the like. In
the case of IE you may have to fool the browser into thinking it is
getting something different than it is based on the URL, because it
likes to look there for a file extension to determine the file type too.
HTH,
http://danconia.org
Hi Wiggins
Thanks... I just tried putting these three lines in a .htaccess file in
a particular directory...
AddType application/octet-stream .cgi
AddType application/octet-stream .txt
AddType application/octet-stream .htm
Alternatively, I also tried AddType application/octet-stream .cgi
.txt .htm
Using the Mozilla 5.0 Suite browser, I get the following results....
And then trried clicked on links to a .cgi file, a .txt file, and a .htm
file in that directory.... Only the .htm file automaticaly brought up a
'Save as...' diaglogue box as I left clicked on the link to the .htm file
when I clicked on the link to the .txt file, the contents of the .txt
file appeared in a Wordpad window.
When I clicked on the link to the .cgi file, the .cgi file was executed
and the results displayed in the browser window.
One out of three right!
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Using the Microsoft IE 6.0 browser, I get the following results....
.htm file -> Displays the .htm file in browser window
.txt file -> Displays the .txt file in browser window
.cgi file -> Executes the .cgi script and displays results in browser window
zero out of three right!
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Using Firefox 1.0 browser, I get the following results...
.htm file -> brings up the 'Save as...' dialogue box
.txt file -> brings up the 'Save as...' dialogue box
.cgi file -> Executes the .cgi script and displays results in browser window
SO....................... Filefox wins by getting two out of the three
right!
This method doesn't look very hopeful at this point!
Thanks again
Tony Frasketi
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