<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Thanks all - I wanted to confirm I hadn't overlooked something obvious. I think a reliable browser solution isn't available.</div><div><br></div><div>I hadn't thought of using applet though. Tim, have you come across a suitable applet?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Ian</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On 6 Nov 2008, at 16:25, Chris Lovell wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">If it's for a company-only intranet then you could feasibly have it set in each user's browser settings (obviously this has limited applications, but it might be useful for this scenario). Unfortunately as already stated, don't think this can be specified via the download itself.<br> <br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/11/6 Tim Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:T.M.Williams@cs.bham.ac.uk">T.M.Williams@cs.bham.ac.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Ian Munday wrote:<br> <br> > (2) set the default target download location on a user machine for<br> > downloading a file from a webpage into.<br> <br> </div>You can suggest a filename in the http header, I suppose you could try<br> putting a full path into this, but I suspect browser security is going to<br> cause it to be ignored.<br> <br> See :<br> <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/93551/how-to-encode-the-filename-parameter-of-content-disposition-header-in-http" target="_blank">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/93551/how-to-encode-the-filename-parameter-of-content-disposition-header-in-http</a><br> <br> Realistically, I think you are going to need to use a signed applet to<br> manage downloads and uploads in this way, this would have access to the<br> local file system and would give you the control you need.<br> <br> Tim W<br> <font color="#888888"><br> --<br> Tim Williams BSc MSc MBCS - Euromotor Autotrain<br> Web : <a href="http://www.autotrain.org" target="_blank">http://www.autotrain.org</a><br> Tel : +44 (0)121 414 2214 (ext 42214 on internal phone)<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br> _______________________________________________<br> Phpwm mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Phpwm@mailman.lug.org.uk">Phpwm@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br> <a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/phpwm" target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/phpwm</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br> _______________________________________________<br>Phpwm mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Phpwm@mailman.lug.org.uk">Phpwm@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/phpwm<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>