How to have email form send email and start file download

Last week after much searching, I found the answer to my problem in
this newsgroup. I can't find the thread from which I got my solution,
but I wanted to report back what worked.

When the site visitor fills out the form and submits it, this calls a
rather ordinary asp script like formmail.asp that sends the emails and
displays a "thank you" web page. At the very end of my "thank you" web
page I placed the following:

<script type="text/javascript">
        location.href="FileToDownload.exe"
</script>

This causes the file download to get triggered, and asks the user if
they want to save the file. In limited testing this appears to work
fine in both Firefox and IE.

Cheers,

Brian Murphy
Austin, Texas
Received on Mon May 1 05:27:21 2006