[Phpwm] Default file upload/download location on users maching

[Ian Munday]

Thanks all - I wanted to confirm I hadn't overlooked something  
obvious.  I think a reliable browser solution isn't available.

I hadn't thought of using applet though.  Tim, have you come across a  
suitable applet?

Regards,

Ian


On 6 Nov 2008, at 16:25, Chris Lovell wrote:

> 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.
>
> 2008/11/6 Tim Williams <T.M.Williams at cs.bham.ac.uk>
> On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Ian Munday wrote:
>
> >   (2)  set the default target download location on a user machine  
> for
> > downloading a file from a webpage into.
>
> You can suggest a filename in the http header, I suppose you could try
> putting a full path into this, but I suspect browser security is  
> going to
> cause it to be ignored.
>
> See :
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/93551/how-to-encode-the-filename-parameter-of-content-disposition-header-in-http
>
> Realistically, I think you are going to need to use a signed applet to
> manage downloads and uploads in this way, this would have access to  
> the
> local file system and would give you the control you need.
>
> Tim W
>
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