[Typo3] Making Filelinks "Download Only"

[Oliver]

Hi Kevin,

You can use the 'Content-Disposition' header in order to force a 
download prompt. Though this probably means you'll have to stream the 
downloadable files through a custom PHP script in order to output the 
required headers.

See http://elouai.com/force-download.php to see what I mean.

Hope this helps,

Oliver

Sebastiaan van Oyen wrote:
> I believe it is a browser specific item. IE will open Word or excel
> documents in the browser and Firefox will ask to save or to open. PDF
> for example will be opened in both by default (if adobe reader is
> installed), but with firefox there is an extension so that you can
> pick your choice.
> 
> So I think this is not typo related but client related. What you could
> do is ofcourse put every file in a (seperate) zip file...
> 
> Sebastiaan van Oyen
> 
> 
> On 10/19/05, Kevin Segraves <kevin at pmt.net> wrote:
> 
>>Dear wise and all-knowledgeable,
>>
>>I'd like the ability to make files incorporated in the Filelinks element to
>>be downloaded by default upon mouse-click rather than opened in the browser.
>>Unfortunately, I'm baffled at the prospects of how to accomplish this in my
>>TYPO3 install.  Can anyone steer me in the right direction?
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>>Kevin Segraves
>>Professional Marketing and Training, Inc.
>> <mailto:kevin at pmt.net>
>>
>>
>>
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