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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by "Liu, Jack" <Ja...@FALCONJET.COM> on 2003/02/12 18:53:19 UTC
[users@httpd] how to setup for download file?
Hi,
I have .exe files under doc root. When user click the link <a
href="testApp.exe"> it display a bunch of garbage which I assume it is the
binary contents of the .exe file.
What I want is let the user download those file to their local drive.
Any thoughts or direction?
Re: [users@httpd] how to setup for download file?
Posted by Jacob Coby <jc...@listingbook.com>.
> Hi,
> I have .exe files under doc root. When user click the link <a
> href="testApp.exe"> it display a bunch of garbage which I assume it is
the
> binary contents of the .exe file.
> What I want is let the user download those file to their local drive.
> Any thoughts or direction?
you need to setup the MIME type using the ContentType directive. I think it
should be set to application/octet-stream.
-Jacob
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Re: [users@httpd] how to setup for download file?
Posted by "J. Greenlees" <ja...@x-mail.net>.
Quoting "Liu, Jack" <Ja...@FALCONJET.COM>:
> ------_=_NextPart_001_01C2D2BF.A0A3C8B0
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> Hi,
> I have .exe files under doc root. When user click the link <a
> href="testApp.exe"> it display a bunch of garbage which I assume it is the
> binary contents of the .exe file.
> What I want is let the user download those file to their local drive.
> Any thoughts or direction?
>
point one, change your email client to send plain text not both html and text.
it's wasting data transfer and interferes with those of us that cannot view html
formatted email
make sure apache knows to send a .exe ( winders executable) as application
octect-stream not to send as text, which is what is happening.
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