Multiple File Downloads?

[Swizylstik]

Can anyone guide me in how to create a document that will allow a user to choose via checkboxes which files they would like to download and then have the download occur concurrently? In other words, I would like the user to be able to make multiple choices and have just one download.

Here is a sample of the idea: [HTML]http://www.rtape.com/download_library.html[/HTML] I'd like to create an admin form where the owner of the documents can populate a database with the files and then another form (like the one in the example) where a user could choose the downloads.

Thanks!

[jhardman]

You can have the "download button" link to an ASP page which has no HTML content, instead it can use the ADO.STREAM object to open and send the files to the user. This object is designed specifically to open binary files from a db, but it works for files just saved to the drive. I've never tried this with more than one doc, so I'm not sure it would work that way, but I think it might be your only choice. Now that I think of it, I don't think I've ever seen more than one file download at a time unless it is all zipped together. Have you ever seen this done?

Jared

[Swizylstik]

J-

I'm surprised this isn't possible although I can't think when I've seen it anywhere. I can use FTP to upload or download more than one file at once so I was hoping there was some way to make that work. I would be happy if the user chose three files and the result of the script was that the first file downloads, then the second download begins, then the third. I mean they don't have to download simultaneously, just consecutively. Seems like it should be possible, no?

-T

[jhardman]

I can't think of anyway to do this through conventional HTML and ASP. HTML is designed to ask for one file at a time, and asp only works while that one page is being accessed by the server. How about a javascript or ajax function that opens each of these files in a new window, one after another? I might be able to muscle through something like this, but I'm not an expert and I probably wouldn't find the best solution.

I almost suggested to use response.redirect to send a new file to the browser after the first one finishes downloading, but redirect does not work after you start sending data.

Jared