Re: FLASH: What action to download to disk?

[till]

><< I am wondering how to set up a button in Flash that will start a download

>of

>  a file, instead of just opening it. My brother's band is using a

>  Flash-driven web site and wants to add a couple songs in MP3 format for

>  downloading. However, if you use a simple "Get URl ..." it will just open a

>  blank window and start to stream the song - not what we want. How do I make

>  a button start a download to disk instead?

>   >>

>I don't know if you can do that, but one work around is to zip the files and

>just do a get URL to the zip file.  Most browsers will then just prompt to

>download the zip file.  If the browser recognizes the format of the file, it

>may alway's try to open it itself.  This is the only solution I know of so

>far.  I'd also be interested in other alternatives.


You can link to a cgi (i.e. perl) script which writes an alternative mime 

header in the http request. If you want a download area where opening 

.jpg's would actually open a save to disc dialog you could add an binary 

mime type header. unfortunately this does not work with IE >=5 anymore 

because MS refers to some RFC where the standard procedure for handling 

binary mime-types is to look at the file suffix and then use the browsers 

internal suffix mapping. This means IE 5 would display a .jpg file no 

matter what mime-header you send it with. Works fine with netscape though.


bye,

till




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