Microsoft Word/Excel download links

[David Alyea]

I am writing pages that have hrefs to Word docs and
Excel files. I'd like the link to function so that
when it is clicked on in IE, instead of the browser
showing the Word or Excel document that the user is
prompted to save the file. Any idea how to do this?

Thanks,
David

[Jim Dabell]

David Alyea wrote:

I am writing pages that have hrefs to Word docs and
Excel files. I'd like the link to function so that
when it is clicked on in IE, instead of the browser
showing the Word or Excel document that the user is
prompted to save the file. Any idea how to do this?

Please read the relevant FAQ before asking a newsgroup for help.

<URL:http://www.htmlhelp.com/faq/html/media.html#force-download>
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[brucie]

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David Alyea said...

I am writing pages that have hrefs to Word docs and Excel files. I'd like
the link to function so that when it is clicked on in IE, instead of the
browser showing the Word or Excel document that the user is prompted to
save the file.

what if the visitor doesn't want that? if you want that change the
options for _your_ browser. let the visitor to decide for themselves
what they want done with the file.
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23/September/2003 07:07:58 am

[Daniel R. Tobias]

David Alyea wrote:

I am writing pages that have hrefs to Word docs and
Excel files. I'd like the link to function so that
when it is clicked on in IE, instead of the browser
showing the Word or Excel document that the user is
prompted to save the file. Any idea how to do this?

And when it's clicked on in Mozilla, what should it do?

Actually, you'd probably have a better chance of fooling Mozilla into
doing this, by changing the MIME type headers sent by the server; IE has
the nasty habit of second-guessing MIME types by file sniffing,
extension checking, etc., in violation of the specs.

However, the MIME type isn't supposed to tell the browser what it must
do with the data, only to tell it what data type it is; it's up to the
browser to decide what to do with it.

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