Re: serving up blobs for download

"Rob Montgomery" <Robert.L.Montgomery@Home.com> wrote... > The reason for the 2 distinct links is because if the remote user > DOES have a pdf viewer installed, clicking on the link will always > start the PDF viewer, which does not have a way to save the file > either. Err, yes it does? The PDF Viewer plug-in displays a toolbar at the top with a floppy disk button that performs this function. At least on my setup it does. > You mentioned that it is ultimately up to the browser as to > how to handle the content, and that we have no control over that. > Well isnt that exactly why we have standardized content-types in the > first place, so that we CAN have some control over these things? Well, no. The content-type describes the type of the content (duh), not what action is to be taken with it. Once the browser knows what it _is_ it will decide for itself what to _do_. > By the way, thanks for the newsgroup, I will definitely look there. > If there is a way to do this (exploit or not), then I guess that is > exactly what I'm looking for... Allen Flavell is one of the more knowledgeable people in that group, and he has a web page you may find useful in explaining the behaviour you are seeing in MSIE. http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/www/content-type.html