Link to a file... this might be JS

SilentDrive · 07-17-2005, 06:30 PM

I want to make a link to download a video file. However when I click it, it opens to a stream... what am I missing??

example of what I got in now...
<a href="http://www.somesite.com/downloads/thefile.avi">TEXT LINK</a>

cjwsb · 07-17-2005, 06:45 PM

To the best of MY knowledge, what you want to do is impossible, even if you use <embed>, <img> or other tags.

I may be wrong, and would love to be proven so, but in the meantime, might I suggest zipping the avi file and having someone download it that way. They unzip, and watch.

Chris

SilentDrive · 07-17-2005, 06:53 PM

This is a good suggestion... Thanks...

_Aerospace_Eng_ · 07-17-2005, 09:05 PM

You could also pass some headers in php. Let me know if you wanna do that.

SilentDrive · 07-18-2005, 12:41 AM

I know nothing about PHP but if you can explain it easily I'll give it a shot...

_Aerospace_Eng_ · 07-18-2005, 03:09 AM

You can make a file saved with a .php extension, the only thing in it will be this

PHP Code:


			
<?

header("Content-Type: video/avi; name=movie.avi");

header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=movie.avi");

?>

Change the name to match your movie name change the filename to match the movie file location. If you go to this page it will prompt a download page. You could directly link to this page and the user will be asked to open/save the avi file, but I think the zip method works fine as well.