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Automatic Download Page
- Thread starter JOD8FY
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You can't make somebody automatically download a file due to (obvious) security issues.
You can, however, give them the download dialog where they accept, save or whatever options their browser has.
You could do this by redirecting to the file. The page will stay the same, but the file download dialog will appear. To do this, place this inside your head tags.
Content = time until the new page is loaded.
Url = ...url to file.
You can, however, give them the download dialog where they accept, save or whatever options their browser has.
You could do this by redirecting to the file. The page will stay the same, but the file download dialog will appear. To do this, place this inside your head tags.
HTML:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;url=http://www.site.com/file.zip">Url = ...url to file.
Mal
macrumors 603
Be warned, though, most people will be very suspicious of any site that asks them to download something as soon as they get there. You're better off simply linking to it and making it fairly apparent. Besides, do you want people to have to keep seeing that same download pop up every time they visit the site/page?
jW
jW
Thanks for the replies. I'm actually selling a piece of software I made on my website. The automatic download page I'm talking about will be the page the customer is redirected to after payment has been processed. I was thinking that this would be better than providing a download link because I could limit the person to just one download. Any other suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
JOD8FY
Thanks,
JOD8FY
Mal
macrumors 603
Not sure I understand. If they reload the page, they'll get it downloaded again anyways, or they can simply bookmark that page and again, they'll get it again. There's better ways of doing this, usually involving some sort of service, though, or better yet you could simply use a serial number system so that no matter how many times they download they can only use it once.
jW
