Downloading Files

[MarkDenton]

Hi guys. I am looking for some code (asp preferably) to download a file that will work on a mac. I have tried a couple of ways but the internet page opens the file, rather than selecting to save it.

Does anyone have any source code they can point me to?

Thanks guys

Mark

[MarkDenton]

I also meant to say, I only need a simple peice of code, I have a page at the mo, that passes a filename to another page, which then downloads the file, well it does on a PC anyway. Nothing too flash or anything.

Thanks guys

Mark

[BjarneDM]

Problems of that kind is typically caused by having bad mime-types in the server-setup. Now, to test this, get hold of Mozilla and [livehttpheaders.mozdev.org...] Go to the download page, open livehttpheaders and click on the download link. Then observe in the livehttpheaders window what kind of Content-Type your server says that the file has to be treated as.

The default mime-type/Content-Type is usually text/plain, which is why you see a lot of garbled and incomprehensible text if the correct mime-type hasn't been set on the server.

As you are asking about *.asp files, I'm guessing you are also using a M$ windows server of some kind. Try asking in one of the more M$ related forums on where to find the settings for mime-types on M$ windows servers.

Also, if you are serving content that the browser is capable of handling internally there's no way to force a download to disk. *.dmg, *.zip, *.sit and other compressed files are usually either set up to be downloaded or handled by an external program.

The correct mime-types for some mac-specific files are:
application/x-stuffit sit
application/mac-binhex40 hqx
*.dmg doesn't seem to have a mime-type registered

If all else fails use application/octet-stream

From the Apache mime-types file:
For more information about Internet media types, please read RFC 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, and 2077. The Internet media type registry is at <http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/>