[Nfb-web] ASCII Downloads

[David Andrews]

What if you make the link a FTP link, that should download it.

Dave

At 07:50 PM 5/7/2006, Peter Donahue wrote:
>Good evening folks,
>
>    I'm working on a Web site on which I must place downloadable ASCII
>Files. Whenever I attempt to download an ASCII File by hitting enter
>Internet Explorer displays the file's contents on the screen rather than
>bringing up the file download dialogue box. If I attempt to download a file
>created in any other format such as Ridge Text, or MSWord the download
>dialogue box appears and I can type in the path to where the file is to be
>saved on my system. The only way to do this with an ASCII file is to select,
>"Save Target As" from the context menu so the file will appear in the file
>download dialogue box rather than its contents being displayed on the
>computer screen should one attempt to download it simply by hitting enter
>rather than using the Save Target As choice from the context menu.
>
>    The only way I've been able to make these files come down by hitting
>enter to bring up the file download dialogue box to avoid using the context
>menu is to zip up these files. I'd like to know if there is an element I can
>add to the ASCII download links to tell a Web browser to download ASCII
>Files rather than display their contents on the screen to avoid having to
>zip up these files, or requiring site visitors to use the context menu? Any
>other fixes or work-arounds for this one will be much appreciated. Take care
>everyone and have a great week.
>
>Peter Donahue
>
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