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Force .doc link to open in word not browser
Posted 24 Mar 2005 16:01:49
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24 Mar 2005 16:01:49 Ronan Donohoe posted:
Hi,can anyone tell me how to force a link in a page to a .doc file to open in Word and not in the browser.
This would produce an open/download dialoge box.
Thanks
Ro
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Replied 24 Mar 2005 17:00:06
24 Mar 2005 17:00:06 Lee Diggins replied:
Hi Ronan
To force a download of a Word doc, here's two pages to do it for you.
Page One = page with link to page two
<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="download_go.asp">Download File</a>
</body>
</html>
Page Two = page with code to force download of doc:
<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>
<%
Dim objStream, myContents, myFileName
myFileName = "download_doc.doc" 'change the name to suit
Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream"
Response.AddHeader "content-disposition", "attachment; filename=" & myFileName
Set objStream = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Stream"
objStream.Open
objStream.LoadFromFile Server.MapPath(myFileName) 'again change to suit if needed
myContents = objStream.ReadText
Response.BinaryWrite myContents
objStream.Close
Set objStream = Nothing
%>
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Edited by - Digga the Wolf on 24 Mar 2005 17:00:45
To force a download of a Word doc, here's two pages to do it for you.
Page One = page with link to page two
<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="download_go.asp">Download File</a>
</body>
</html>
Page Two = page with code to force download of doc:
<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>
<%
Dim objStream, myContents, myFileName
myFileName = "download_doc.doc" 'change the name to suit
Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream"
Response.AddHeader "content-disposition", "attachment; filename=" & myFileName
Set objStream = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Stream"
objStream.Open
objStream.LoadFromFile Server.MapPath(myFileName) 'again change to suit if needed
myContents = objStream.ReadText
Response.BinaryWrite myContents
objStream.Close
Set objStream = Nothing
%>
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Edited by - Digga the Wolf on 24 Mar 2005 17:00:45
Replied 24 Mar 2005 18:51:56
24 Mar 2005 18:51:56 Ronan Donohoe replied:
Thanks! Thats exactly what i needed.
Ro
Ro
Replied 20 Mar 2006 09:39:15
20 Mar 2006 09:39:15 Aasim Momin replied:
I am having the same problem but would like the functionality on a CD. The word documents would be present on the cd as well as the flash file trying to open the word files. How could i achieve it?
-Aasim
-Aasim
Replied 08 Sep 2006 21:46:33
08 Sep 2006 21:46:33 Martin Hofmann replied:
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Hi Ronan
To force a download of a Word doc, here's two pages to do it for you.
Page One = page with link to page two
<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="download_go.asp">Download File</a>
</body>
</html>
Page Two = page with code to force download of doc:
<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>
<%
Dim objStream, myContents, myFileName
myFileName = "download_doc.doc" 'change the name to suit
Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream"
Response.AddHeader "content-disposition", "attachment; filename=" & myFileName
Set objStream = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Stream"
objStream.Open
objStream.LoadFromFile Server.MapPath(myFileName) 'again change to suit if needed
myContents = objStream.ReadText
Response.BinaryWrite myContents
objStream.Close
Set objStream = Nothing
%>
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Edited by - Digga the Wolf on 24 Mar 2005 17:00:45
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Thanks!
I modified it so I can just send a variable from the link and only have to create one download.asp page instead of separate ones for my hundreds of files to be downloaded.
<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>
<%
Dim objStream, myContents, myFileName
'send filename variable through link on separate page:
'download.asp?myFileName=somepath/somefile.ext
'Read the file name form variable. We will use CStr
'to make sure we are getting a string.
myFileName = CStr(Request("myFileName")
Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream"
Response.AddHeader "content-disposition", "attachment; filename=" & myFileName
Set objStream = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Stream"
objStream.Open
objStream.LoadFromFile Server.MapPath(myFileName) 'again change to suit if needed
myContents = objStream.ReadText
Response.BinaryWrite myContents
objStream.Close
Set objStream = Nothing
%>
Hi Ronan
To force a download of a Word doc, here's two pages to do it for you.
Page One = page with link to page two
<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="download_go.asp">Download File</a>
</body>
</html>
Page Two = page with code to force download of doc:
<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>
<%
Dim objStream, myContents, myFileName
myFileName = "download_doc.doc" 'change the name to suit
Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream"
Response.AddHeader "content-disposition", "attachment; filename=" & myFileName
Set objStream = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Stream"
objStream.Open
objStream.LoadFromFile Server.MapPath(myFileName) 'again change to suit if needed
myContents = objStream.ReadText
Response.BinaryWrite myContents
objStream.Close
Set objStream = Nothing
%>
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~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
<b>Lee Diggins</b> - <i>DMXzone Manager</i>
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Edited by - Digga the Wolf on 24 Mar 2005 17:00:45
<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>
Thanks!
I modified it so I can just send a variable from the link and only have to create one download.asp page instead of separate ones for my hundreds of files to be downloaded.
<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>
<%
Dim objStream, myContents, myFileName
'send filename variable through link on separate page:
'download.asp?myFileName=somepath/somefile.ext
'Read the file name form variable. We will use CStr
'to make sure we are getting a string.
myFileName = CStr(Request("myFileName"
)Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream"
Response.AddHeader "content-disposition", "attachment; filename=" & myFileName
Set objStream = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Stream"
objStream.Open
objStream.LoadFromFile Server.MapPath(myFileName) 'again change to suit if needed
myContents = objStream.ReadText
Response.BinaryWrite myContents
objStream.Close
Set objStream = Nothing
%>
Replied 14 Sep 2006 08:34:53
14 Sep 2006 08:34:53 Sophia Li replied:
Is a way to force download files loacted on the other server? For example, download.asp is located at www.myserver.com and the file to be downloaded is www.onlineaudio.com/audio/test.mp3? Thanks.
Replied 05 Mar 2007 14:16:14
05 Mar 2007 14:16:14 Marcus Bennick replied:
I want my users to click on a wordlink on my website, and then the word doc. shall open in the office word and not in the browser. I have tried to insert the code you postet, but I cant get it to work. Can you maybe exoplain it for e newbee.
Offcourse I have upoloaded the word doc to my webplace
Offcourse I have upoloaded the word doc to my webplace
Replied 06 Mar 2007 22:43:52
06 Mar 2007 22:43:52 Lee Diggins replied:
Hi Marcus
This is a setting controlled by your operating system, you can make the change by following these instructions:
support.microsoft.com/kb/162059
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This is a setting controlled by your operating system, you can make the change by following these instructions:
support.microsoft.com/kb/162059
Sharing Knowledge Saves Valuable Time!!!
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
<b>Lee Diggins</b> - <i>DMXzone Manager</i>
<font size="1">[ Studio MX/MX2004 | ASP -> VBScript/PerlScript/JavaScript | SQL | CSS ]</font>