On Wednesday 04 December 2002 16:21, Dara Dowd wrote:
> Hello,
> I'd like a user to be able download a file from a file server on my LAN.
>
> Using <a href="file://server/directory/filename"> works ok, but this simply
> displays the file in the browser and I want to force the download dialog
> box to appear.
Just ask the users to right-click -> "Save link as"!
> So now i have <a href="download.php?file=filename">, and i want to do
> something like fopen("file://server/directory/filename",rb") but i just get
> an invalid argument warning. Am i on the right track?Is there a way around
> this?
fopen() doesn't know about "file://". If the file is on your webserver then
just specify the absolute path to the file.
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