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First, my web skills are very limited, so be gentle.
If you got to AO Security downloads, and actually download something you get to the point where a page is displayed suggesting that if the download does not start automatically, click here ...
At the same time the download starts automatically.
How is that done. I can start a page automatically by redirecting in a pages headers, but the I can't display that message.
Any help appreciated.
Steve
The meta refresh seems to work fine for most sites that offer downloads this way:
Stick that in the <head> area of your HTML file (or generate it automatically using PHP, ASP etc.) and it should work.Code:<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1; url=http://www.yoursite.com/downloads/file.zip">
You can also use JavaScript, something like this:
Obviously, the second version will only work if JavaScript is enabled, but most browsers do have it switched on. The first version will work in pretty much any browser.Code:<body onLoad='window.location.href="http://www.yoursite.com/downloads/file.zip"'>
The reason the above code snippets work is because browsers automatically recognise zip files etc. as being file types (or rather, MIME types) that can't be rendered by a browser and so they display a download box whilst leaving the original page in the background. This wouldn't work if you wanted to offer up a plain text file for download (the browser would simply load it in the window) unless you placed in a zip file or tar archive.
*look at the greenie that pwaring got for answering such a easy answer* :p
It's only easy if you know the answer. ;)Quote:
Originally posted here by SDK
*look at the greenie that pwaring got for answering such a easy answer* :p
And the greenie didn't even come from me....Quote:
Originally posted here by SDK
*look at the greenie that pwaring got for answering such a easy answer* :p
Until now.
Thanks pwaring - that's a huge help.
Steve