# Quick answer to what is probably a stupid question please

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-answer-to-what-is-probably-a-stupid-question-please/11928>\
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**Created:** [January 24, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-answer-to-what-is-probably-a-stupid-question-please/11928 "2003-01-24T01:07:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![m660](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@m660](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/m660)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-answer-to-what-is-probably-a-stupid-question-please/11928/1 "2003-01-24T01:07:51Z")

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I want to give visitors to my site the opportunity to downoad a ‘realplayer’ movie.  
What action do I use from the button?

It’s not the same as in dreamweaver where I only have to put a link to the file name (no: ‘.html’ or ‘.swf’)

I have tried doing it that way but it opens a new browser window instead of instigating a download.

If this question is ‘unbelievably stupid’ please feel free to ‘gloat and ridicule me’…but please give me the answer!

…God my brain hurts :crazy:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-answer-to-what-is-probably-a-stupid-question-please/11928/2 "2003-01-24T01:11:41Z")

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and link to it directly. 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 10:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-answer-to-what-is-probably-a-stupid-question-please/11928/3 "2003-01-24T10:54:59Z")

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Thanks Guig0 for coming back to me but luckily this walnut in my head decided to spark back into life for five seconds and I used the ‘get URL’ command with ‘.avi’ on the end and that has sorted the ‘problemo’ out. :beam:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 11:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-answer-to-what-is-probably-a-stupid-question-please/11928/4 "2003-01-24T11:16:17Z")

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Glad to hear that.

Cheers =)