On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Eric Thomas wrote:
> I'm having a bit of a problem with opening an abiword document from a web
> link. I've written a script to automatically create abiword documents from
> a template file with data supplied from a database. The script then writes
> an HTML page with a link to the document. On clicking the link, however,
> the browser just displays the source as an XML file.
I think there are two steps to this:
1. configure your web-server to serve .abw files with MIME info:
application/x-abiword (I think)
2. instruct users to associate MIME-type "application/x-abiword" with
AbiWord in MSIE's "Preferences"->"Receiving Files"->"File Helpers"
section.
(I haven't tried this myself, though.)
Otherwise, I'm not sure. There may be a way to use J[ava]Script to prompt
IE to open a link in a given application.
Regards, Frank
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