Autodownload File

[Mustafa Rabie]

Hi All,

I want to add autodownload like all the one in Downloads.com. When u click
download now link it redirects you to a page that the file downloads the
application after the page is loaded.
how can i do that?

thanks
mustafa

[Anders Norås]

Mustafa Rabie wrote:

I want to add autodownload like all the one in Downloads.com. When u click
download now link it redirects you to a page that the file downloads the
application after the page is loaded.
how can i do that?

You need to do this:
1) The "download" link points to page X.
2) Page X redirects to the zip, exe or other file the user should download.

You can pass the name of the file to download as a query string
parameter to create a dynamic "page X".

Anders Norås
http://dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/anoras/

[William F. Robertson, Jr.]

If you view source on their page you will see how they accomplish this.
They are writing an iframe into the document with a src of the file to
download.

This code needs to be somewhere on your page.

for the window.onLoad event the beginDownload method will be called. It
writes out an iframe with the src attribute to download.

The <noscript> tag is processed on browsers that do not support scripts.

hth,

bill

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
function beginDownload() {
idl = -1;
idl = location.search.indexOf("idl=n");
if (idl < 0) document.write('<iframe height="0" width="0"
src="http://myserver.com/downloads/file.exe"></iframe>');
}
window.onLoad=beginDownload();
//-->
</script>
<noscript>
<iframe height="0" width="0"
src="http://myserver.com/downloads/file.exe"> </iframe>
</noscript>
"Mustafa Rabie" <mr*******@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%2******************@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...

Hi All,

I want to add autodownload like all the one in Downloads.com. When u click download now link it redirects you to a page that the file downloads the
application after the page is loaded.
how can i do that?

thanks
mustafa

[Peng Jie]

You can do like this in dotnet.

Response.ContentType = ContentType;
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition",
"attachment;filename="+Path.GetFileName(Filename)) ;
Response.WriteFile(Filename);
Response.End();
"Mustafa Rabie" wrote:

Hi All,

I want to add autodownload like all the one in Downloads.com. When u click
download now link it redirects you to a page that the file downloads the
application after the page is loaded.
how can i do that?

thanks
mustafa

[Peter Morris [Droopy eyes software]]

All I think you need is a META REFRESH in the download page. If the target
page is a ZIP etc (can't be displayed visually in the browser) the browser
will open a download dialog instead of navigating.

I do this on my own site in ASP -
http://www.droopyeyes.com/downloads/ecomodeler.asp

--
Pete
====
ECO Modeler, Audio compression components, DIB graphics controls,
FastStrings
http://www.droopyeyes.com

Read or write articles on just about anything
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[Mustafa Rabie]

thank you for your replies they are very helpful, but the redirect to page x
with the link wont work since it wont display the page.
I want it to be when after the page is loaded and displayed it starts
downloading.

I think the iFrame idea is good, i can hide the iframe and redirect to the
file from inside it.

any feedback and comments is more than welcome of course! ;)

thanks for your help really appreciated
mustafa
"Mustafa Rabie" <mr*******@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%2******************@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...

Hi All,

I want to add autodownload like all the one in Downloads.com. When u
click download now link it redirects you to a page that the file downloads
the application after the page is loaded.
how can i do that?

thanks
mustafa

[Mustafa Rabie]

i tried that but there's no after page load function in aspx, so i can fire
that code after the page is loaded.

"Peng Jie" <Pe*****@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:25**********************************@microsof t.com...

You can do like this in dotnet.

Response.ContentType = ContentType;
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition",
"attachment;filename="+Path.GetFileName(Filename)) ;
Response.WriteFile(Filename);
Response.End();
"Mustafa Rabie" wrote:

Hi All,

I want to add autodownload like all the one in Downloads.com. When u
click
download now link it redirects you to a page that the file downloads the
application after the page is loaded.
how can i do that?

thanks
mustafa

[Mustafa Rabie]

actually this is much easier... thanks peter i think i'll use the meta
refresh :)
"Peter Morris [Droopy eyes software]" <pe**@not.this.or.this.droopyeyes.com>
wrote in message news:uf**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

All I think you need is a META REFRESH in the download page. If the
target page is a ZIP etc (can't be displayed visually in the browser) the
browser will open a download dialog instead of navigating.

I do this on my own site in ASP -
http://www.droopyeyes.com/downloads/ecomodeler.asp

--
Pete
====
ECO Modeler, Audio compression components, DIB graphics controls,
FastStrings
http://www.droopyeyes.com

Read or write articles on just about anything
http://www.HowToDoThings.com

My blog
http://blogs.slcdug.org/petermorris/