How Do I Force the Browser to Save a File

[MattC]

I work in a web based environment (Oracle 10.1.2) and have a situation
where I need to send a file to the user's client machine. I want to
make sure that when I send the file the user sees a dialog box that
asks them to save the file to disk.

Can someone explain how this is done? Is there a HTTPResponse header
field that needs to be set?

Thanks,
Matt

 

[Chris Smith]

I work in a web based environment (Oracle 10.1.2) and have a situation
where I need to send a file to the user's client machine. I want to
make sure that when I send the file the user sees a dialog box that
asks them to save the file to disk.

Can someone explain how this is done? Is there a HTTPResponse header
field that needs to be set?

Google for the Content-disposition header

 

[Oliver Wong]

Google for the Content-disposition header

Pedantic point: This only "recommends" that the browser displays a save
prompt. The browser is free to ignore your recommendation and do whatever it
wants with yoru data. This (recommending, as opposed to forcing) is the best
you can do on the Internet.

- Oliver