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Website Coding: Forcing links to download instead of opening in browser

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talyn00

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How can you code a website so that if you have a link to a word doc or pdf file it downloads instead of attempting to view the file in your browser? Is there a way to force a download dialogue box to show up?

Thanks.
 
Configure your webserver so that the mime-type for the files you want to download is set as something that browsers wont open.
 
just put it in a zip or rar and have a link somewhere to a download of winrar and/or other freeware solutions for people who dont have xp
 
If you know any server side scripting like PHP, you can easily code a download page that will have the file download instead of opening in a plugin.

Sample code for setting the MIME type using the PHP header function:
 
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