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Nov 4th, 2001, 12:48 AM
Sacofjoea

Start Downloading..

Hey, I am wanting to know with what and how can I get my page to auto start the download as the page loads.. (as download.com does)

Also, I am probably going to host maybe 20 or so small files, and I dont really want to make a seperate page for each one.. I know there is some sort of script that will show me how to arrange these files into one script and then have the link call on that file when the page loads..

Kind of want to put this all together, but mainly the start download as the page loads is what im concerned about..

Thanks,
-Sac
Nov 4th, 2001, 11:35 AM
sail3005

Code:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" Content="2;URL=file.zip">
Nov 4th, 2001, 01:15 PM
Sacofjoea

..couldn't get it to work.. it just seemed to refresh
Nov 4th, 2001, 01:18 PM
Sacofjoea

alright, well I got it to work by putting th efull path to the file, only thing is that the file Im getting them to dl is a .wav file and I dont want them to have to have it open up in Windows MEdia Player, I want them to be able to save it as a wav if they want to rather than opening it up in Media Player.. how can I make it download it (save target as) instead?
Nov 4th, 2001, 01:18 PM
filburt1

Dreamweaver seems to agree with sail:

Code:

<html> <head> <title>Untitled Document</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;URL=file.zip"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> </body> </html>
Nov 4th, 2001, 01:26 PM
Sacofjoea

yteah i know, my last post said I had got it to work..
Nov 4th, 2001, 01:28 PM
filburt1

Sorry, I replied before that post was made. :D

As per that last question, I don't think you can server-side; it's a mime-type deal and is local to the user's machine. Although I've accidently set up Apache once to ask the user to download an HTML page, so maybe it can be done somehow. :confused:
Nov 4th, 2001, 01:43 PM
Sacofjoea

hmph
Nov 4th, 2001, 02:49 PM

hey does that Meta tag work with variables?
like

echo"<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"Refresh\" Content=\"2;URL=$file\">";

and Filburt, the reason you got Apache to download the html file is because apache wasn't configured right. lol
Nov 4th, 2001, 04:39 PM
sail3005

it should work with vars as long as the server processes it before it spits out the HTML.
Nov 4th, 2001, 09:31 PM
da_silvy

Quote:

Originally posted by scoutt
hey does that Meta tag work with variables?
like

echo"<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"Refresh\" Content=\"2;URL=$file\">";

and Filburt, the reason you got Apache to download the html file is because apache wasn't configured right. lol

yep
Nov 4th, 2001, 11:19 PM

thanks, :)
Nov 5th, 2001, 02:22 AM
da_silvy

no probs

You could've tested it, lol :p
Nov 5th, 2001, 09:44 AM

probably but I wasn't working on it at the time. I will tonight after work. why test it when I have you guys testing it for me lol :D:D
Nov 5th, 2001, 10:21 AM
da_silvy

i didn't test it

i knew it :p

i have used that before...
Nov 5th, 2001, 04:26 PM
sail3005

You can do it for anything, as long as it's server side first. You can really funktify the code :D
Nov 6th, 2001, 12:14 AM
da_silvy

You can really stuff it up too :eek: