Redirect a zip file - please help

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Dennis Macdonald

I have many links to a zip file that I wish people to be redirected to
another zip file instead.

How do I do this on my server? I'be tried to have a redirect html
named as the orifginal zip file that will redirect to the new zip
file. This works if I load the redirect as html page but if its named
zip then the browser just downloads it.

Any help most appreciated.
Dennis.
 
That's the way it works! A ZIP file is a compressed file of other stuff and
it is intended to be downloaded and expanded to the original stuff that the
originator wants you to have. Making it a redirector is quite contrary to
the process.
Any particular reason that you are doing something so contrary otehr than
enabling viruses to get downloaded to the downloader's computer?
 
I need it because I have a large number of external sites (I have no
real control over) referring to the old zip file and I need to
redirect them to a new zip file of a different name.
 
Dennis Macdonald said:
I need it because I have a large number of external sites (I have no
real control over) referring to the old zip file and I need to
redirect them to a new zip file of a different name.
Click to expand...

You've got two options : Replace the Web-page, or replace the Zip-file. If
you can't do either, you're out-of-luck.

Ask yourself : How would you intercept a request (for either the offending
HTML-page or the Zip-file) if you do not see it ? It's not very likely
that a request for data on a computer (that you do not control) is routed
thru any computer (read : Server) you *do* control.

All-in-all your question is a strange one ...

Regards,
Rudy Wieser
 
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