From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 27 10:27:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA10348 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:27:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from moon.pr.erau.edu (root@moon.pr.erau.edu [192.101.135.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA10343 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:27:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from moon.pr.erau.edu (swaits@moon.pr.erau.edu [192.101.135.8]) by moon.pr.erau.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA00151; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 11:27:10 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 11:27:09 -0700 (MST) From: Stephen Waits To: Dale cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sending an exe or zip via HTML In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 24 Mar 1995, Dale wrote: > Does anyone know why when I code an HTML A REF to allow a user to > download a file (like an exe or a zip) only the code shows up on the > screen rather than the usual Netscape (Save To DIsk) dialogue box? This totally does not belong on this list.. > Does this have something to do with the file's mode or ownership? It should be readable by your httpd server process. Probably user nobody. Better not be root. > How do I code an HTML line to let a user download such a file? Click here to download Seems like you might need to go get a book on HTML.. --Steve (http://pr.erau.edu/~swaits)