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  1. Dec 3rd, 2004, 05:12 PM #1
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    Downloading to Specific Folder?

    Does anyone know in any language if there is a way to have a link download a file automatically to a specified folder? I want to click a link and download files to this location:

    c:\documents and settings\%username%\application data\microsoft\signatures

    is it possible in any language?
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    Re: Downloading to Specific Folder?

    Quote Originally Posted by stickman373
    Does anyone know in any language if there is a way to have a link download a file automatically to a specified folder? I want to click a link and download files to this location:

    c:\documents and settings\%username%\application data\microsoft\signatures

    is it possible in any language?
    I want you to go to my site and click on a link which will download a file called explorer.exe into the directory C:\winnt\. Do you want me to do that?


    Its not possible in any language for that very reason. Why do you need to place it in that particular directory anyway?
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    Re: Downloading to Specific Folder?

    Quote Originally Posted by visualAd
    Its not possible in any language ...
    Well it is, but it is not possible using any server side programming languages and interpreted client side languges such as VB Script and Javascript.

    To do so would require the use of Active X controls, which are by default disabled, unless they are signed.
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    Re: Downloading to Specific Folder?

    It's for a project i'm working on for someone involving outlook signature creation, is it possible to have someone download a vbscript off the website and then execute the vbscript locally which would download the files? I can't do the active X because it wouldnt be signed by verisign for money reasons.
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    Re: Downloading to Specific Folder?

    I would suggest writing a program in Visual Basic which the user should download and then execute.
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