Linking to MS Word

Anon

Is there a way to create a link to a MS Word document so that IE doesn't open it? I would like my users to just click on the link and have it download, not open.

Thanks.

alcapone

imho, there're two choices:
one, it is in configuration of your webserver (like my apache used to open p-poin files online)
two, it is in the browsers settings and I doubt you can do anything with it.
Though I always wondered who's got the right of a way? server who says don't open files here or the browser who says open files online?

cheers,
AlCapone

ame12

You can use your web server's mime-type settings to override the setting for DOC files so that it doesn't use the default (which brings up Word in the user's browser).

If you want to display the DOC file in the browser (transcoded automatically to HTML), the BadBlue personal server does this and it's free.

http://badblue.com/helpdoc.htm

Dave

Anon

Instead of linking to Word files you can link to PHP file in which would you set header like this:

header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=myfile.doc");
header("Content-type: application/x-octet-stream");

and then just read file from disk and send it to the browser. This works for me for all files (.html, too) in both IE and NN.

Anon

Try using the code below:

Header("Content-Type: application/msword");

Good luck!

Anon

Hi!

I have created a PHP class for handling operations on files, one of its methods is ForceDownload. If you need one, please email me.

Best,
Stas

Anon

Hi Neman,

Can this be done in HTML?