Re: forcing ie to save the contents of the html instead of displaying it
- From: ekb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric Kenneth Bustad)
- Date: 9 Sep 2005 21:16:01 GMT
In article <LUjUe.9369$9i4.9003@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Julie <jules1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I have an html file where I display name,address,zip. It is one per line so
>it is basicall a list of addresses.
>
>But I would like ie6 to force the download prompt of this long list of names
>instead of displaying it to their browsers. This way they can save the list
>to a file. I know I can set it up as a txt file and let them download it
>that way, but right now this file is generated from a source program which I
>have no control over and it creates this .html file.
>
>I looked around google and found a few things to try like:
><meta http-equiv="content-type","application/download">
>
><meta http-equiv="content-type","application/force-download">
>
><meta http-equiv="content-type","application/octet-stream">
>
><meta http-equiv="content-disposition","attachment; filename=list.txt">
>
>but these dont seem to work at all.
>
>Thanks for your help.
Why *force* them to download it? Certainly they can get their browser
to do this if *they* want it to without any special work on your part?
Or does ie6 not have this capability?
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= Eric Bustad, Norwegian bachelor programmer
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