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Posted by cathywigzell on February 23, 2005, 4:00 am
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I have a web page which allows a user to download a file directly to
their computer, using IE. I present a file name in a table and the user
can then right click on the file name to get a popup menu with the
option 'Save Target As...'. Selecting that option results in the Save
As dialog.
However, if the filename has a reconginsed extension, e.g. .doc, then
the Save As dialog adds another extension, so the file name in the Save
As dialog ends up as 'file.doc.doc'. This is not the desired effect!
The 'Save as type' field on the dialog is automatically set to
Microsoft Word Document, so the client browser is recognising the .doc
extension.
The HTML for the table data item is as follows...
<TD><A title="Name of file to transfer"
HREF=http://host/archivesBobDocsfile%2Edoc>file.doc</TD>
The file downloads OK but is given the name file.doc.doc. How can I get
rid of the extra .doc extension?
Many thanks for your help,
Cathy
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Posted by Dan on February 23, 2005, 2:42 pm
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cathywigzell@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> I have a web page which allows a user to download a file directly to
> their computer, using IE.
And what if they're using a superior browser instead?
> <TD><A title="Name of file to transfer"
> HREF=http://host/archivesBobDocsfile%2Edoc>file.doc</TD>
Several syntax errors here. The A element is unclosed, the HREF
attribute needs to be enclosed in quotes, forward slashes should be
used instead of backslashes, and the dot in the filename shouldn't be
encoded as %2E. That last one, the unnecessary encoding of the dot, is
probably what's confusing the browser with regard to file naming.
--
Dan
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Posted by cathywigzell on February 24, 2005, 4:00 am
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Thanks for all you suggestions - it now works perfectly. This is what
I've implemented...
<TD><A title="Name of file to transfer"
HREF="http://host/archives/Bob/Docs/file.doc">file.doc</A></TD>
Cathy
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Posted by Christoph Paeper on February 23, 2005, 4:54 pm
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>
> HREF=http://host/archivesBobDocsfile%2Edoc>file.doc</TD>
>
> The file downloads OK but is given the name file.doc.doc. How can I get
> rid of the extra .doc extension?
Don't encode the dot. Also close your 'a' element instance and don't use
backslahes where slashes belong.
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"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority.
By definition, there are already enough people to do that."
G. H. Hardy
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