Hi,
On my wiki, I have a lot of links to files which are all located on a local server. However, when I click on them in the web browser, they open up in the browser. So my question is, is there any way to make them either open up in the correct application on the PC or in a separate window in the browser?
Cheers,
Dan
That's configuration on your end. Either configure your browser to handle the mimetypes in a special way, or have your webserver send a mimetype of application/octet-stream so that your web browser will consider it a downloadable file.
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Dan Sinclair wrote:
Hi,
On my wiki, I have a lot of links to files which are all located on a local server. However, when I click on them in the web browser, they open up in the browser. So my question is, is there any way to make them either open up in the correct application on the PC or in a separate window in the browser?
Cheers,
Dan
There's also a HTTP header designed specifically to address this. For those files, you need to set Content-Disposition: attachment[1].
I don't know what webserver you're using, but here are some instructions on how to make Apache serve PDF's in this fashion[2]. Making rules for other filetypes, or for files only within certain directories shouldn't be too much more difficult.
[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms527580(EXCHG.10).aspx [2] http://www.thingy-ma-jig.co.uk/blog/06-08-2007/force-a-pdf-to-download
-- Jim R. WIlson (jimbojw)
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Daniel Friesen dan_the_man@telus.net wrote:
That's configuration on your end. Either configure your browser to handle the mimetypes in a special way, or have your webserver send a mimetype of application/octet-stream so that your web browser will consider it a downloadable file.
~Daniel Friesen(Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) of: -The Nadir-Point Group (http://nadir-point.com) --It's Wiki-Tools subgroup (http://wiki-tools.com) --The ElectronicMe project (http://electronic-me.org) --Games-G.P.S. (http://ggps.org) -And Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG) --Animepedia (http://anime.wikia.com) --Narutopedia (http://naruto.wikia.com)
Dan Sinclair wrote:
Hi,
On my wiki, I have a lot of links to files which are all located on a local server. However, when I click on them in the web browser, they open up in the browser. So my question is, is there any way to make them either open up in the correct application on the PC or in a separate window in the browser?
Cheers,
Dan
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