- From: <ptorr@vantsys.com.au>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 08:54:26 +1000
- To: "Ravindra Sharma" <rsharma@marketfirst.com>, www-html@w3.org
>It I include an attachment link > >HREF=http://company.com/docs/word.doc > >Browsers launches the Word application and shows the document. So >I call it a viewable attachment link. [snip] >BUT, Is there any way I can allow user to download without putting on >FTP. I mean using the href=http://... link. I think that if you use FTP, Word will still open the document. One work-around is to change the extension of the file, or remove it altogether. The browser works with "registered file types" to determine that ".DOC" files can be run with Microsoft Word. If you rename them to something like ".D_C" (or have no extension at all) then the browser will not find a matching file type and will ask the user to save the file to disk. All you need is a simple simple instruction that tells the user to save the file with a ".DOC" extension. Whilst this approach will work, it is not ideal becaue it requires extra work on behalf of the user. You can also get them to change their settings in Windows Explorer so that they are always asked whether to open or download Office documents from the web, but this affects all documents and is even more work for them to do. Peter
Received on Monday, 11 January 1999 16:55:00 UTC