Why not offer both options to the purchaser of the files? If they only purchase a couple of files, there's not much to be gained, but if they purchase a lot of files, it would certainly be more convenient to download them all in one shot.
Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Owens, Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:52 PM Subject: 2 Zip or Not 2 Zip > I need to set up a process where by a user will select (buy, really) a > number of data files (songs, actually). These files will be downloaded onto > the user machine where a client-side application will manipulate them > further. As part of the process, we also need to generate a text that also > must be transferred to the client machine. > > I can only two ways to handle this ... force the user to click multiple > links to download each file, or run a server-side zip utility to zip > everything up before shipping it off to the client machine. > > The programmer building the client-side application doesn't like this second > option. He doesn't want to have to have the client machine unzip the file > before doing what his program needs to do. > > Is there a way to batch all of the needed files together in a single > download (using CF to do this) without zipping them together in any way? > > H. ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
