Re: How to have email form send email and start file download

bmurphy@xlrotor.com wrote:

> [...]
> 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.

If, and only if, the required client-side script and DOM support
is present. You are much better off doing this server-side. At
least provide a server-side fallback.

PointedEars

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