Shoutbox

Hello.

I have a text file (with a changed extension) on my webserver.
When I click the link of the file in firefox,  firefox just displays the contents of the text file while IE automaticly opens the file, which is what I actually want to happen...
Or, if I cant do that, show the save as dialog instead of displaying what the file has...

I searched google and i found this: http://www.codecomments.com/PERL_CGI_Beginners/message611929-1.html

Well, as I'm not using Perl, but PHP, I didn't really understand what he did...

Can anyone help me?

I think it has something to do with the headers....

Thanks!

make a link to the file, Right-click, Save link as...

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Originally posted by MeEtc
make a link to the file, Right-click, Save link as...

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But, I want it to show a save us dialog, and dont have to make the user to do it manually....

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/options#downloads

file types?

would that work?

easiest way i can think of is just saving it into a .zip file then getting them to download it that way, if it is a .txt file it wont take long to download. As for the actual thing that guy did i cant figure it out, but ill keep looking for you, if i find anything ill post it back to you.

you can set the header to force the server to send the file, something like:

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header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
  header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$filename"\");

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Originally posted by Stigmata
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/options#downloads

file types?

would that work?

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Well, i want to show the save as for all my visitors, not just only me...

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Originally posted by Methos2
easiest way i can think of is just saving it into a .zip file then getting them to download it that way, if it is a .txt file it wont take long to download. As for the actual thing that guy did i cant figure it out, but ill keep looking for you, if i find anything ill post it back to you.

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Well, its a .pls (winamp playlist) file, fore my internet radio, so I think that it would be boring to have to open the zip to connect to my internet radio...

Thanks for your help anyway

Save the file with as something.php, and add this code at the very top:

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<?php
header('Content-Type: application/pls+xml');
?>

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I dont know...
When I put the header, it will ask me if I want to download the php file...

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Originally posted by Mike
When I put the header, it will ask me if I want to download the php file...

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Whose headers, mine or Dempsey's? Dempsey's should ask you if you want to download the file, but not the PHP file, the proper playlist. Mine shouldn't do that at all, assuming settings in the user agent.