Is there a way to hide the url when giving download option to a user?

[R.A.]

Hi

In the web site I work on I give the users an option to download files from
the web server. They click a button and I use the
Response.Redirect("filename.exe"). The problem is that the user migth see
the downloaded file url. Is there a way to hide the downloaded file url (it
shows in the ie taskbar). Server.Transfer doesn't work for this.


Thanks

 

[Ken Cox [Microsoft MVP]]

You can use Response.WriteFile to send a file from the file system without
telling the browser its path. Call the routine from the onclick event of a
server control.

' Calculate the filename by taking everything after the final slash
strPDFname = strFilepath.Substring(strFilepath.LastIndexOf("/")
+ 1)
strFileExtension =
strFilepath.Substring(strFilepath.LastIndexOf(".") + 1)

' Set up the response headers for a PDF download
Response.Clear()
Response.ClearHeaders()
Response.ClearContent()

' Create a suggested filenname for the downloaded document
(short - not the whole path)
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename="
& strPDFname)

'Write the file to the browser and end the HTML content
Response.WriteFile(Server.MapPath(strFilepath))
Response.End()

 

[Kevin Spencer]

You could always use System.IO to open the file from a location that is not
available to the web server and write it back to the client.

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
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