[FX.php List] Forcing a browser to download a text file

[Bob Patin]

Well, what I was hoping to do was to have links for all their  
uploaded files, whatever they were, and have them download, not display.

I've done tons of sites for downloading ZIP files, but this is,  
amazingly, the first time I've ever upload plain text files and then  
tried to just link to them for downloading... it's got to be a simple  
HTML change...


On Jul 14, 2007, at 5:34 PM, Alex Gates wrote:

> Hi Bob-
>
> I've never tried this before - but a google search brought me to this:
>
> http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread475396.html
>
> Whatever you end up using, make sure to test it on multiple browsers.
>
> If nothing else, why not just instruct to right click and 'save  
> as..' ?
>
> Alex
>
> Bob Patin wrote:
>> How do I force a browser to download a text file rather than to  
>> display it in the browser? I've written an upload script for a  
>> client so that they can upload text files, but when I click on the  
>> links for the uploaded files, they display rather than download.
>> Thanks,
>> Bob Patin
>> Longterm Solutions
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