ftp download problem

[Guest Lumberjack]

I've just finished writing a website for my parents villa. I've only one problem and that is the link I will need so that visitors can download the PDF of the 'Booking Terms & Conditions'. When the link is currently clicked it just opens the file in an IE Explorer window without giving the option to save it.Any ideas?The code is as follows:----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <p align="center"> <font size="4" color="#800000"> <a target="_blank" href="downloads/booking%20terms%20&%20conditions.pdf"> <font color="#800000">Booking Terms & Conditions</font></a></font></p>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Moridin]

How about just telling them to click "Save As" or simple compress the file?- Moridin

[smiles]

When the link is currently clicked it just opens the file in an IE Explorer window without giving the option to save it.

I remember that PDF is free online document , so choice to save or open is ... free too

How about just telling them to click "Save As" or simple compress the file?

no, that not work

[Jack McKalling]

You can create or get a php script for that, go here:http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php

<?php// We'll be outputting a PDFheader('Content-type: application/pdf');// It will be called downloaded.pdfheader('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="downloaded.pdf"');// The PDF source is in original.pdfreadfile('original.pdf');?>

This will always get the download dialogbox open. (should)

[justsomeguy]

That will not open the download box, if the Acrobat plugin is installed it will still open it in the browser because the mime type is set to PDF. If you set the mime type to application/octet-stream instead, it will always force a download box.

[Jack McKalling]

My mistake, just copied some example code from php.net. I don't do this often myself. :)But at least use that code, with the "application/octet-stream" mimetype