Hi,

I need some help as a newbie.

I'm trying to create a web page that allow file transfer via HTTP. Most searches on Google turns out FTP, a protocol that is blocked by my company server.

Some sites I visited to download freewares offer downloads via HTTP or FTP.

I followed the instructions in the book on Apache, PHP, and MySQL to setup most of the stuff. I'm on WinXP.

Thanks.



Wongster, your friendly Monster

So what's the problem? Do you know that you can just provide a hyperlink to any type of file, and if its not HTML, GIF, (or some other file which the browser knows how to display) then the browser will just open a 'Save' dialog and presto you've got the file via HTTP.

Or do you want to somehow stream the file via PHP?

Explain a bit more about what exactly you're trying to accomplish.

rgds
Phil

Hi Phil,

Thanks for your reply.

I created a link to a file to test it out. Served to the page on another machine and click on the link. No respond except the change in color of the link to purple. I thought that happens because the file is on another partition in the server. Moved the file to the documentroot directory. Still no luck.

I tried a number of file types (mp3, doc, pdf etc) without success.

I'm absolutely new to this. Please pardon my ignorance.

Thanks.

Wongster :)

Wongster, your friendly Monster

OK take a step back.

I have IIS running on my PC here. If I create a file called foo.bar in c:\inetpub\wwwroot, then I can put this hyperlink in an HTML file on my PC "<a href="http://localhost/foo.bar">get file</a>" and when I click it I get a dialog box asking if I want to save the file foo.bar

What's different on your setup?

I managed to figure out what went wrong.

I was trying to create a hyperlink from a directory on other partition. I copied a sample pdf over to the document root again. This time, it works. Confirmation was done with a mp3 file. The media player pops out.

I guess the learning curve is little steep at the beginning for someone like me, who is rather new. But I'm determined to learn.

Thanks Phil.

Regards,

Wongster :)

Wongster, your friendly Monster

Hi,

Here is good example if you want to force a download programmatically. :-)

private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e){
 string FileName;
 string FExt;

 FileName = Request["f"];
 FExt = FileName.Substring(FileName.IndexOf(".") + 1);

 if (FileName == ""){
  Response.Write("No file was specified");
  Response.End();
 }

 Response.ContentType = "application/" + FExt;
 Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment; filename=" + FileName.Substring(FileName.LastIndexOf("\\")));

 string FilePath = FileName;
 Response.WriteFile(FilePath);
 Response.End();
}


Regards



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