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Re: [Q] Changing default name in a FORM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet)
Tue Oct 8 15:09:03 1996
From: galactus@htmlhelp.com (Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet)
To: www-talk@w3.org
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 20:21:51 +0200
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In article <199610080948.LAA26948@beatles.cselt.stet.it>,
mau@beatles.cselt.stet.it (Maurizio Codogno) wrote:
> I have a script which selects a file and send it to the user. It
> is accessed via a form, with action POST.
> Unfortunately, the file is sent with the form's name as default name,
> and the user should rename it by hand.
There's no direct solution, but you could make the files available
in a (hidden?) directory, and only send out a redirection to the
file in the form results:
Status: 302 Go look elsewhere
Location: http://yourserver.com/dir/dir/file.zip
> (I cannot use a simple hyperlink, because I have to trace the request
> and modify an internal database without looking at the logs)
As long as you don't mind someone picking out the files by hand,
this should do what you want.
Galactus
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