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

[Bob Patin]

That's a good idea, but I was hoping I could figure out a way that  
filenames wouldn't have to be altered. I don't know how savvy this  
client is with filenames.

Adding another extension would certainly be an easy step though...

BP


On Jul 15, 2007, at 3:43 AM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:

> 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
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