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  • 22-07-2004 12:13pm
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    JohnnyBravo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 537 ✭✭✭


    Hi Folks

    I was wondering if you could help me
    I have an attachment linked to a url and when the person clicks on the url the user is given the oppurtunity to either open download or cancel
    I would like to force them into opening it from current location ie no option box would appear


    Anyone have any ideas or could point mein the right direction

    RGDS
    John


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    briano
    Registered Users Posts: 678 ✭✭✭briano


    Afaik you can't really force a browser to do anything. Check out http://webtips.dan.info/force.html . It has some info on why you shouldn't do that sort of thing. Mainly because its really annoying, especially for people who are using a different browser/OS to the one the designer used.

    If you are hell bent on trying to do it you coould possibly try some sort of javascript commands: document.open(url) or something like that if memory serves me correctly.


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    Ivan Dunaev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭Ivan Dunaev


    do you realize that possibility of force opening could do to your computer, if some evil person (not Phil) redirects you to dangerous file?


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    JohnnyBravo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 537 ✭✭✭JohnnyBravo


    its only accesable through an intranet everyone is logged and its only for managers so i dont think anyone will really mess with it


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    Evil Phil
    Registered Users Posts: 7,468 ✭✭✭Evil Phil


    *cough* Certainly not.

    We have Word docs and Excel workbooks downloading of our intranet applications and we still prompt the user to open in the browser or save because its deemed bad to force the open. Its a Standard of Practice and a good one to adopt.

    Managers you say, is there a worse user group? :D


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    Ivan Dunaev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭Ivan Dunaev


    it's a browser security policy indeed


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    mneylon
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭mneylon


    You may be able to force it through if you have a corporate security policy and version of the browser in place, but even the latest version of IE now has some security built in (about fecking time)

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    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,257 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    This actually can be done - I have done exactly the same where I want a user to download an image as opposed to the browser open it (a lot of the web-based email services do this for attachments on emails)

    This is done by server-side scripting. I only know how to to this through ASP, but the idea should be much the same for PHP or whatever backend technology you are using. Here is an article on it for ASP


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