providing files for dl

[bnpain]

I have some files i'd like visitors of my site to be able to download.
How do i accomplish this with html?

any help is appreciated, i've search many tutorials already

thanks
brandon

[brucie]

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bnpain said:

I have some files i'd like visitors of my site to be able to download.
How do i accomplish this with html?

<a href="my-file.ext">download my file [3Gb]</a>

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brucie
04/December/2003 06:13:30 pm kilo

[Eric Bohlman]

"bnpain" <bp*******@nesbeonline.com> wrote in
news:3f**********************@news.cablerocket.com :

I have some files i'd like visitors of my site to be able to download.
How do i accomplish this with html?

Link to them. Make sure your server sends them out with the appropriate
content type. That's it.

[bnpain]

sorry i'm rather new to this...
what do you mean sends them with the appropriate content type?
would this be what i need?
<A HREF="http://www.mysite.com/myfolder/myfile.ext">Download my file?</A>

some of the files i am using do have strange extensions
ie chess games i have are in a .pgn format. This is simply a standard for
saving chess games in a text file so that other chess programs can read them
as well. One website won't even let me upload it. i simply zipped it so it
worked out but now i need to retrive that zip.
thanks
brandon

"Eric Bohlman" <eb******@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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"bnpain" <bp*******@nesbeonline.com> wrote in
news:3f**********************@news.cablerocket.com :

I have some files i'd like visitors of my site to be able to download.
How do i accomplish this with html?

Link to them. Make sure your server sends them out with the appropriate
content type. That's it.

[bnpain]

i am foolish how easy is that...
"bnpain" <bp*******@nesbeonline.com> wrote in message
news:3f**********************@news.cablerocket.com ...

sorry i'm rather new to this...
what do you mean sends them with the appropriate content type?
would this be what i need?
<A HREF="http://www.mysite.com/myfolder/myfile.ext">Download my file?</A>
some of the files i am using do have strange extensions
ie chess games i have are in a .pgn format. This is simply a standard for
saving chess games in a text file so that other chess programs can read them as well. One website won't even let me upload it. i simply zipped it so it
worked out but now i need to retrive that zip.
thanks
brandon

"Eric Bohlman" <eb******@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:Xn*******************************@130.133.1.4 ...

"bnpain" <bp*******@nesbeonline.com> wrote in
news:3f**********************@news.cablerocket.com :

I have some files i'd like visitors of my site to be able to download.
How do i accomplish this with html?

Link to them. Make sure your server sends them out with the appropriate
content type. That's it.

[Anne van Kesteren]

bnpain wrote:

sorry i'm rather new to this...
what do you mean sends them with the appropriate content type?
would this be what i need?
<A HREF="http://www.mysite.com/myfolder/myfile.ext">Download my file?</A>
Lowercase would be better IMO. I think you should also give a
description in the optional TITLE attribute what the file contains etc.,
etc.

some of the files i am using do have strange extensions
ie chess games i have are in a .pgn format. This is simply a standard for
saving chess games in a text file so that other chess programs can read them
as well. One website won't even let me upload it.

This is off-list AFAIK, but you should get a better host I think ;-)
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Anne van Kesteren
<http://www.annevankesteren.nl/>

[True Gamer]

You link to the files like this <a href="somefile.zip">Some File 1.28
MB</a>. You don't have to list the size though it will look better if
you do. If you have a file that requires a plugin, make a page of it
and use the object element. I don't run download sites but I have read
the code to a download. Those download.com-style downloads are done
through ASP or some other programming language and are unnecessary and a
waste of time to program.
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bnpain wrote:

I have some files i'd like visitors of my site to be able to download.
How do i accomplish this with html?

any help is appreciated, i've search many tutorials already

thanks
brandon