Preserved Topic: Open file download window? or at least shellexecute? (Page 1 of 1)

Hello,

I have uploaded some .doc files, and some .wmv and .mov files...

How can i make an <a> tag that whenever clicked either the "Save file..." dialog appears or the appropriate program opens the selected file...

example: <a href="file1.wmv">click me to view</a>

this example above doesn't display the movie!

This has to do with association of mime-types to programs, if I'm not mistaken you are dependant on what associations the visitor has in his/hers system which makes it hard to work with.

You could probably try to persuade the server to fake the mime-type sent to the client, how you would do this, I dont't know.

The easiest way is to use a fileformat like .zip to force download instead of executing.

let's hope someone else has a way around this, I'd like to know as well.
/Dan

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I might have went a bit crazy I had a little bug in my code that had me ask this question...but now I fixed it.

thanks Dms, Ini.