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

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

add .bin at the end of the .txt

On 7/15/07, Bob Patin <bob at patin.com> wrote:
> 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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