I have a quick question. Is there any way to allow someone to just download a video file without it by default opening up windows media player (or the default player) and playing as it downloads (kind of like fake streaming). I don't want people to do that. I want them to be presented with a "save as" box when they try and download. The way I am doing it now, is by zipping up these files. Anyone have a solution where I don't need to do this?
Read the file in, Response.AddHeader "content-disposition","attachment; filename=fname.ext" and binary write it out. If you just offer a link, then you can't stop the default behavior of the users browser.
XPSP2 may help to some degree - I now hit .wmv files from some sites, and the content blocker/popup blocker bar appears - If I 'allow restricted content' I get the option to play the video file or save it to disk...
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Posted - 06 October 2004 : 21:05:26
