Re: Forcing a save as' dialogue box to come up on left click

2005-09-19 Thread David Dorward
On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 17:46 -0500, Tony Frasketi wrote: 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 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2183.html -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ Anybody remotely

Re: problems with CGI.pm upload feature

2005-09-19 Thread Scott R. Godin
Scott R. Godin wrote: script is at http://phpfi.com/78748 Possibly used the wrong web browser to upload the file. Not all of them support this feature. Firefox does not. It will however provide the CGI script with the file name. Firefox doesn't support file uploads? I use it all the

RE: problems with CGI.pm upload feature

2005-09-19 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
Scott R. Godin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Regrettably this isn't getting me any closer to a resolution -- : what about the code? can anyone see anything I might have : overlooked? done wrong? should it, in fact, be working right : now? Did you test to be certain that @file actually

Re: Forcing a save as' dialogue box to come up on left click

2005-09-19 Thread Tony Frasketi
Thanks for the response, David. I scanned thru the document to which you refer and from what I can understand it appears 'to me' that the 'Content-Disposition Header Field being described is in the context of email messages. Can you give me some more information as to whether this can apply

Re: Forcing a save as' dialogue box to come up on left click

2005-09-19 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Tony Frasketi wrote: 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

Re: Forcing a save as' dialogue box to come up on left click

2005-09-19 Thread Tony Frasketi
What I was intending was to call the cgi script and rather than it printing the normal text/html header it would print the header directly, that way you are guaranteed to be operating the way you intended. Hi Wiggins Thanks for this suggestion... I've tried the following bit of CGI script

Re: Forcing a save as' dialogue box to come up on left click

2005-09-19 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Tony Frasketi wrote: What I was intending was to call the cgi script and rather than it printing the normal text/html header it would print the header directly, that way you are guaranteed to be operating the way you intended. Hi Wiggins Thanks for this suggestion... I've tried the