.zip file download

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Hi
I want a compressed file to open/download automaticly when you submit an .asp form in Dreamweaver. (Hope it makes sense?!)

Can somebody please help me???:red:

Thanks!

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Don’t think you can do it. It’s a client side option on your browser. It’s like that for security reasons.

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I’ve seen some sites doing it. Maybe I didn’t explain to well.
When the viewer submit a form, a popup window appears to show him all the detail he’s sent us… okay?:h:

So now, I want a pop-up window to appear,giving him the option to download the compressed file in say, about, 5 secondes. If for some reason the file doesn’t download there must be an option saying: (eg.)“If doc doesn’t download in 5 secondes, click here…” -(or something like that …:h:

Sorry if I’m not so clear. Hope you can help!!!

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Ooooh… I thought what you meant is that when you had a download it automatically downloaded… bypassing the user options to save or open. Anyway… I dunno right off, what needs to be done to do that but if you go to download.com or something similar to it take a look at their coding and decipher it.

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pucca that sounds like you need some server side scripting. I have done similar things in ASP and SQL.

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I know that a normal a tag pointing at a zip file like the one below

a href=“myzippedfile.zip”

would work but not sure how to do it in asp, try www.w3schools.com I find most of my answers in there :thumb;