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Posted by palgrave on April 20, 2005, 1:17 pm
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Hi,
How do you create an html link from a web page to a read-only excel
spreadsheet without the browser asking if the user wants to open it or
save it?
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Posted by David Dorward on April 20, 2005, 9:28 pm
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palgrave wrote:
> How do you create an html link from a web page to a read-only excel
> spreadsheet without the browser asking if the user wants to open it or
> save it?
Configure the browser so it doesn't prompt you. You can't do it from HTML.
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Posted by Dan on April 20, 2005, 2:46 pm
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David Dorward wrote:
> palgrave wrote:
>
> > How do you create an html link from a web page to a read-only excel
> > spreadsheet without the browser asking if the user wants to open it
or
> > save it?
>
> Configure the browser so it doesn't prompt you. You can't do it from
HTML.
In fact, HTML doesn't even know it's an Excel spreadsheet; it's up to
the server serving it to send the proper MIME type headers that
indicate the data type. Then, upon receiving the headers, the browser
decides what to do with it in accordance with its configuration. If it
happens that the user doesn't even have Excel on his/her system, or any
other program that views such spreadsheets, then the only reasonable
option for the browser to give is to save the file.
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Dan
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Posted by Stan Brown on April 20, 2005, 5:42 pm
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"David Dorward" wrote in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html:
>palgrave wrote:
>
>> How do you create an html link from a web page to a read-only excel
>> spreadsheet without the browser asking if the user wants to open it or
>> save it?
>
>Configure the browser so it doesn't prompt you. You can't do it from HTML.
Not even with <object> ??
(Disclosure: I tried myself last year to set that up, and failed.)
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Posted by David Dorward on April 21, 2005, 12:02 am
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Stan Brown wrote:
> "David Dorward" wrote in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html:
>>> How do you create an html link
>>Configure the browser so it doesn't prompt you. You can't do it from HTML.
> Not even with <object> ??
<object> wouldn't be a link, it would also be a right pain in the whatsit
for anyone who wanted to save the file, or view it in a window of
reasonable size.
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David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>
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