Dear Anthony, Big thanks. Works great.
Love and peace, Joe On Jan 19, 7:29 pm, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, January 19, 2012 10:18:24 PM UTC-5, JoeCodeswell wrote: > > > Dear web2py folks, > > > I am trying to force the download of a a file named > > 'allLists.xls.enc'. using '?attachment' after the URL. > > > I am getting similar errors from Firefox and Opera: "Firefox doesn't > > know how to open this address, because the protocol (e) isn't > > associated with any program." > > > Here is the HTML source for the URL. > > <a href="E:\web2py\applications\scramble\private\allLists.xls.enc? > > attachment">allLists.xls.enc</a> > > Your href is a filesystem path rather than a URL. If you want web2py to > serve the file, then you need a regular web2py URL, and if you want it > served as a static file, it must be in the "static" folder. If you put the > file in the static folder, set the URL as follows: > > <a href="{{=URL('static', 'allLists.xls.enc?attachment')}}"> > > Anthony
