Download box from a webpage

[kyle]

Hi Guys,

I am trying to mimic the behavior of download.com... where a page says
"your download will start in 10 seconds" and then the download box
pops up. Would anyone mind telling me how that works? I want to use
this as an alternative to "click here to download the file" and then
directly link to the file. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!
Kyle

 

[Alberto Poblacion]

I am trying to mimic the behavior of download.com... where a page says
"your download will start in 10 seconds" and then the download box
pops up. Would anyone mind telling me how that works? I want to use
this as an alternative to "click here to download the file" and then
directly link to the file. Any help is appreciated.

One way to do it is to add a piece of JavaScript inside the page that you
send to the browser. That code uses a JavaScript Timer to count the 10
seconds, and when the timer fires it posts back to the server. The new page
to which the browser has posted does a response.BinaryWrite(...) to send the
file to he browser, after setting the Headers to indicate the filename and
MIME type. (Note: the latter is more efficient if done from a .ashx instead
of a .aspx).

 

[Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]]

Most of these use the META Refresh tag to do this:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10; URL=http://www.mysite.com/file.zip">

-- Peter
Site: http://www.eggheadcafe.com
UnBlog: http://petesbloggerama.blogspot.com
MetaFinder: http://www.blogmetafinder.com

 

[james]

Alberto, Peter,

Would these approaches redirect the browser to a different page? I
think Kyle is trying to keep the current page from changing.

-James