Tony Frasketi wrote:
> Hello Listers
> I'm trying to find a way to force a download dialogue box to come up
> when the user clicks on a link on a web page (the link will primarily
> be for htm, .txt files on the server).

Short answer is that you cannot *force* the client to do anything.

The HTTP standard addresses this in sec. 19.5.1 of RFC 2616, so you should
read that over. Unfortunately, not all clients follow the standard here.

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