To force the save window is easy - make up your own content subtype (main type application) and set it:
Content-Type: application/x-download-this-file-you-stupid-browser Remember to start with an "x-" as your type is obviously not registered with the IANA. The tricky part is setting up the default file name - if your script is http://foo.com/cgi-bin/download.pl?filename=bar the save dialog will default to download.pl; not to the expected "bar". The solution is to force the file name out of the query string. You want to create a URI that looks like http://foo.com/download/bar?param1=val1¶m2=val2 or even better: http://foo.com/download/val1/val2/bar You should use mod_rewrite to take requests of this scheme and translate it to http://foo.com/cgi-bin/download.pl?filename=bar¶m1=val1¶m2=val2... The magic is that you then tell mod_rewrite to trigger an INTERNAL redirect, so the server works flawlessly without any funny configurations and the browser never sees it. If you're using a mod_perl handler, another way to do it is set up a location /download that calls your handler and read the filename (and possibly the parameters) directly out of the URI using the request object, but that's a bit harder (although more elegant and probably uses less resources then the big mighty mod_rewrite's rewrite engine). Issac ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Daupert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 1:02 AM Subject: How do I force a 'Save Window?' > I have file upload working, can upload files of ascii or binary format. > But a problem when you browse to a page that dynamically displays > hyperlinks to files. Text and html files display normally in a browser, > and Word docs popup MS Word as a helper app, and the word doc > opens fine. But MS Project files popup a browser instance and MS > Project, and you get the usual "Enable macros" and such popups as > normal, but only a subset of the project displays in the browser window, > and none of the buttons are active in the Project application. Bummer. > > How can I force a "Save File" dialog screen for selected files, so the user > will have the option to download the file, then open it in Project or > whatever? > > > Thanks for any help or information. > > /dennis > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > Office phone: 817-762-8304 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > "Great leaders never tell people how to do their jobs. > Great leaders tell people what to do and establish a > framework within which it must be done. > Then they let people on the front lines, > who know best, figure out how to get it done." > ~ General H. Norman Schwarzkopf > > > >
