Re: How to simultaneously send HTML *and* start download?

On 21 May 2002 at 20:37, D. D. Brierton wrote: > The result I'm looking for is like the CGI script at netscape for > downloading NS6 - it takes you to a page which says aomething like > "The download should start automatically" and then the download > begins. I'm having trouble figuring out how to do this in PHP - I > suspect through ignorance of the appropriate HTTP headers. Am I > looking for something like Content-type: multipart? So what I'm > looking to achieve is a bit like what this obviously fails to do (but > hopefuly you can see what I'm aiming at): This is usually done with Javascript... <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Download</title> </head> <body onLoad="location.href = 'myfile.foo';"> <p>The download should start automatically. If it does not, right click the following link and choose "Save as ..."</p> <p><a href="myfile.foo">Download MyFile</a></p> </body> </html> -- Stuart