On Apr 2, 2015, at 6:33 PM, Sean Greenslade wrote:
On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 05:58:49PM -0700, Jeffry Killen wrote:
When a web page or a resource like an image or javascript file, or
css file
"downloads" it is rendered in the browser. It does not appear as a
separate
file written to the users system. What I am looking for is what
might be
described
as the opposite of uploading a file.
Thanks for responses
JK
My suspicion was correct; you're looking to tell the browser that this
is a file to save rather than a file to display. This is accomplished
with headers, which the browser interprets as hints (not commands,
as it
is free to ignore them) for what to do with a given page.
A quick google turned up this result:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8485886/force-file-download-with-php-using-header
See if that helps.
--Sean
Thank you for the link, I am getting an idea of what is going on here,
even though I don't
know that the posters problem was solved.
So, if I understand the basics,
a bunch of headers are sent and then the file is read. But I don't see
a print or echo statement
in any of the code in the related posts.
I have read a file as a string, sent a Content-Type header and then
used a print statement to send
the file contents for an async request: in cases where css or
javascript is requested after a page
loads. The output is sent to the browser.
But this situation appears different. The file content is sent to the
browser but the browser writes
it directly to a separate file (?)
JK
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