asynchronous downloads

2002-10-03 Thread Andrew G. Hammond
How do I send a file asynchronously? The classic example is download sites. You click on the file you want and it generates a thankyou page for your browser and also sends the file. So what's the correct way to do this?

Re: asynchronous downloads

2002-10-03 Thread dom
How do I send a file asynchronously? The classic example is download sites. You click on the file you want and it generates a thankyou page for your browser and also sends the file. So what's the correct way to do this? Use a refresh META tag on the thank-you page, that points to

Re: asynchronous downloads

2002-10-03 Thread Kevin Berggren
I think many sites use the meta refresh html tag. i.e. htmlhead ... META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT=2;URL=file_i_want_to_download.gz ... Netscape has a complete reference on this at http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/htmlguid/tags3.htm#1697602 You could probably also set a refresh

[OT] Re: asynchronous downloads

2002-10-03 Thread Issac Goldstand
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 5:09 PM Subject: Re: asynchronous downloads How do I send a file asynchronously? The classic example is download sites. You click on the file you want and it generates