----- 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 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 the > requested file. Look at any download page at SourceForge to see how it > is done. > > Alternatively, you can return a multipart/mixed MIME message with > both documents as the result of the HTTP request. > Actually, that is not defined for HTTP. Although people commonly interchange the Content-Type field defined by HTTP, and that defined by MIME, the two are not interchangable. The closest that HTTP comes to working with multipart fields is the multipart/form-data Content-Type defined in RFC 2388 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2388.txt) As it happens, I noticed this a couple of years ago, and am currently planning an I-D which will implement multipart/related HTTP responses. If anyone at all is interested in this, please don't hesitate to contact me about it - BUT, let's keep that off-list, please :-) Issac
