Re: [PHP] How to simultaneously send HTML *and* start download?

2002-05-22 Thread D. D. Brierton
Following on from my mail yesterday, here are the results of testing Billy's multipart content method on Windows browsers (Windows 98 to be precise): * IE 6.0 displays the boundary markers and content-type headers inline and also the contents of myfile.foo instead of saving

Re: [PHP] How to simultaneously send HTML *and* start download?

2002-05-21 Thread D. D. Brierton
I just thought that members of this list following this thread might like to know the results of my experimenting with this technique: All tests on Linux (testing on Windows 98 tomorrow): * Mozilla 0.9.9 worked perfectly. * Netscape 4.78 appeared to work but downloaded file was v

Re: [PHP] How to simultaneously send HTML *and* start download?

2002-05-21 Thread D. D. Brierton
On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 21:02, Billy S Halsey wrote: > Here's the shell of a script I wrote a while back to do exactly what you > want: Thanks, Billy! That's really helpful. I'm curious as to the significance of the number 12399. Is this just a random number used as a separator, or does it indicat

Re: [PHP] How to simultaneously send HTML *and* start download?

2002-05-21 Thread D. D. Brierton
On Tue, 21 May 2002 20:57:46 +0100, 1lt John W. Holmes wrote: > Use PHP to write a META-REFRESH to the file that's going to be downloaded, > or a php file that controls the download. Basically, you show them an HTML > page that says the download will begin, the META tag refreshes after X > second

Re: [PHP] How to simultaneously send HTML *and* start download?

2002-05-21 Thread Stuart Dallas
On 21 May 2002 at 20:37, D. D. Brierton wrote: > The result I'm looking for is like the CGI script at netscape for > downloading NS6 - it takes you to a page which says aomething like > "The download should start automatically" and then the download > begins. I'm having trouble figuring out how to

Re: [PHP] How to simultaneously send HTML *and* start download?

2002-05-21 Thread Billy S Halsey
Hi, Here's the shell of a script I wrote a while back to do exactly what you want: Note the format of the "Boundary" headers, especially the dashes. /bsh/ -- /-=[ BILLY S HALSEY ]=--\ | Member of Technical Staff, Sun Microsystems, Inc. ESP Sol

Re: [PHP] How to simultaneously send HTML *and* start download?

2002-05-21 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
olmes... - Original Message - From: "D. D. Brierton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 3:37 PM Subject: [PHP] How to simultaneously send HTML *and* start download? > The result I'm looking for is like the CGI script at

Re: [PHP] How to simultaneously send HTML *and* start download?

2002-05-21 Thread Robert Cummings
"D. D. Brierton" wrote: > > The result I'm looking for is like the CGI script at netscape for downloading > NS6 - it takes you to a page which says aomething like "The download should > start automatically" and then the download begins. I'm having trouble figuring > out how to do this in PHP - I

[PHP] How to simultaneously send HTML *and* start download?

2002-05-21 Thread D. D. Brierton
The result I'm looking for is like the CGI script at netscape for downloading NS6 - it takes you to a page which says aomething like "The download should start automatically" and then the download begins. I'm having trouble figuring out how to do this in PHP - I suspect through ignorance of the ap