FAO Az and others

[Shad]

I'm having a problem using location.href in IE6. The codeworks fine in Opera and Mozilla.

Basically there's a frameset with 2 frames. When a link in the right hand frame is clicked, a confirm dialog pops up to determine whether or not the user wishes to view or download the file. If they want to dl it, the frame *should* redirect to a script which sends them the file (as opposed to IE trying to open it in a browser window). As I say this is working nicely on other browsers.

It seems location.href is somewhat buggy in IE, so is there a decent workaround? I've tried opening the file-save script in a new window with window.open, but once the dl is complete the window stays there.

Bit stuck really

[Iain]

you tried
location.url=blah

[Shad]

you tried
location.url=blah

Yup, same result. Not even an error, just doesn't do anything!

[Iain]

Actually ignore that, it's been deprecated. I take it this is down to the document being a word document or something similar which IE thinks it can open in a browser window whereas you want it to force a download ?

You can force the file to download by modifying the page header to include

Content-Disposition: attachment, filename=myFile.pdf

or the equivalent. It depends on what language you are using as to how you define the header

[Iain]

and it's not

location.url =

it's just

location =

as I said, that's been deprecated though but you might find it works. If so then you'll need a little browser detection script

[Shad]

Actually ignore that, it's been deprecated. I take it this is down to the document being a word document or something similar which IE thinks it can open in a browser window whereas you want it to force a download ?

You can force the file to download by modifying the page header to include

Content-Disposition: attachment, filename=myFile.pdf

or the equivalent. It depends on what language you are using as to how you define the header

Yes, that's one of the things the script does. Tried just location and did the same thing. Really frustraiting