Martin Honnen wrote:[color=blue]
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> SmilingPolitely wrote:
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>> <a href="filename>Click here to download file: size <script to insert
>> file size>, last modified on <script to insert date last modified></a>
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>> Is this possible using only javascript. I don't have access to
>> PHP/ASP/anything else useful on the server. Perhaps you might know of
>> an alternate way to achieve my aims?[/color]
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> It is certainly possible using JavaScript on the server. If you do not
> have server-side scripting available then if you consider those infos
> important for your users you have to insert them by hand in the markup.
> If the infos are optional you could consider using client-side script to
> make HTTP HEAD requests and try to read out the info from the HTTP
> response headers:
> <http://home.arcor.de/martin.honnen/javascript/200504/test2005041101.html>
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> Note that the example is meant to be a proof of concept, I have tested
> that it works with Mozilla and with IE on Windows but I know that at
> least current beta releases of Opera have some support for
> XMLHttpRequest but do not support methods to get the response headers.
> And I think others have reported that some Safari versions do not
> support HTTP HEAD requests.
> So the code in the example would need to be improved to prevent or to at
> least handle errors occuring in those browsers.
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Thanks very much Martin.... works like a charm
