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Does anybody have a Download Dialog written in JavaScripts? This is for a
website. I've seen it done before.... where you click on what you want and
the dialog comes up asking you if you want to save it. From what I can
tell, the name of the file is passed as a parameter of the JavaScript.

Below is an example of what somebody (who I don't know) has done:
http://eteamz.active.com/tejanoswhite90girls/handouts/

Thanks

JCO said the following on 10/14/2005 7:31 PM:
> Does anybody have a Download Dialog written in JavaScripts? This is for a
> website. I've seen it done before.... where you click on what you want and
> the dialog comes up asking you if you want to save it. From what I can
> tell, the name of the file is passed as a parameter of the JavaScript.
>
> Below is an example of what somebody (who I don't know) has done:
> http://eteamz.active.com/tejanoswhite90girls/handouts/

It has nothing to do with Javascript. It has to do with file types,
browser settings, and server-settings. The only thing that *may* be
passed as a "parameter of the Javascript" is the URL to the file but the
download dialog is user-dependent more than anything else and you can
not "force" it.

If the user wants to download it, they can right click>Save target As
(or other wordings).

If the user wants to display it in the browser (and has it set up that
way) then allow them.

--
Randy
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Right I understand that. But if it is a pdf, it depends on if they have a
program that reads PDFs. If they don't, it will download otherwise it will
open it. As the case for all file types. I want to force the dialog box
regardless of the file type and regardless of the application they have
installed. The example I showed (link) is downloading a document. I have
"Word" installed, yet the dialog forces me to only download the file.

Other options is have the files zipped.. then they will all download.
Disadvantage is that I have some customers that don't know a thing about
zipping. And I don't want them to download and .exe (extractable) file.

I also want to learn how to do the dialog box for the sake of learning the
JavaScript anyway.

Thanks for your input.


"Randy Webb" <> wrote in message
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> JCO said the following on 10/14/2005 7:31 PM:
> > Does anybody have a Download Dialog written in JavaScripts? This is for
a
> > website. I've seen it done before.... where you click on what you want
and
> > the dialog comes up asking you if you want to save it. From what I can
> > tell, the name of the file is passed as a parameter of the JavaScript.
> >
> > Below is an example of what somebody (who I don't know) has done:
> > http://eteamz.active.com/tejanoswhite90girls/handouts/
>
> It has nothing to do with Javascript. It has to do with file types,
> browser settings, and server-settings. The only thing that *may* be
> passed as a "parameter of the Javascript" is the URL to the file but the
> download dialog is user-dependent more than anything else and you can
> not "force" it.
>
> If the user wants to download it, they can right click>Save target As
> (or other wordings).
>
> If the user wants to display it in the browser (and has it set up that
> way) then allow them.
>
> --
> Randy
> comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq & newsgroup weekly

JCO said the following on 10/16/2005 11:06 PM:
> Right I understand that. But if it is a pdf, it depends on if they have a
> program that reads PDFs. If they don't, it will download otherwise it will
> open it. As the case for all file types. I want to force the dialog box
> regardless of the file type and regardless of the application they have
> installed. The example I showed (link) is downloading a document. I have
> "Word" installed, yet the dialog forces me to only download the file.

That is precisely what I said. It depends on the user's settings. You
have yours set to display Word documents in the browser, I do not.

> Other options is have the files zipped.. then they will all download.
> Disadvantage is that I have some customers that don't know a thing about
> zipping. And I don't want them to download and .exe (extractable) file.

Then educate your users.

> I also want to learn how to do the dialog box for the sake of learning the
> JavaScript anyway.

There is no Javascript that can "force" that download dialog.

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Randy Webb wrote on 17 okt 2005 in comp.lang.javascript:
> There is no Javascript that can "force" that download dialog.

In fact there is.

Serverside ASP-javascript can force a stream to be downloaded by:

Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition","attachment;filename=my.pdf");

[I hope the above displays on one line]

Content-Disposition RFC:
<http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2183.html>

Clientsided javascript cannot, I agree with Randy.

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Evertjan.
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I hope I can write a JavaScript that is uploaded to the server (as my other
scripts) that can invoke a download dialog (either the standard windows
dialog or a user created dialog).

"Evertjan." <> wrote in message
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> Randy Webb wrote on 17 okt 2005 in comp.lang.javascript:
> > There is no Javascript that can "force" that download dialog.
>
> In fact there is.
>
> Serverside ASP-javascript can force a stream to be downloaded by:
>
> Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition","attachment;filename=my.pdf");
>
> [I hope the above displays on one line]
>
> Content-Disposition RFC:
> <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2183.html>
>
> Clientsided javascript cannot, I agree with Randy.
>
> --
> Evertjan.
> The Netherlands.
> (Replace all crosses with dots in my emailaddress)
>

JCO wrote on 17 okt 2005 in comp.lang.javascript:
> "Evertjan." <> wrote in message
>> Randy Webb wrote on 17 okt 2005 in comp.lang.javascript:
>> > There is no Javascript that can "force" that download dialog.
>>
>> In fact there is.
>> Serverside ASP-javascript can force a stream to be downloaded by:
>> Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition","attachment;filename=my.pdf")
>> [I hope the above displays on one line]
>> Content-Disposition RFC:
>> <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2183.html>
>>
>> Clientsided javascript cannot, I agree with Randy.

[please do not toppost on usenet]

> I hope I can write a JavaScript that is uploaded to the server (as my
> other scripts) that can invoke a download dialog (either the standard
> windows dialog or a user created dialog).

Sorry, but serverside code [asp-javascript, asp-vbscript, php, etc] kan
only work on the server and usually prepares and renders html content to be
sent to the client, which can have clientside script code, like javascript
[or also vbscript on the IE browser].

The dialog surely must be on the client browser and the download also, be
it that the with serverside code provided header code Content-Disposition
can force the client to use it's own download popup window, instead of the
usual stream that directly dislays pdf.




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Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
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