On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 08:58:52AM -0700, Mary Anderson wrote:
>> (Please keep this on the mailing list)
No, really. Please keep this on the mailing list. You do that by
emailing beginners-cgi@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
rather than my private address.
> Its not a cgi "macro image" but a "cgi macro" image.
Oh. The img method of the CGI object.
> Just the image function that expands into the html <img> tag.
That's an HTML issue, not a CGI issue.
PDF files aren't images, and aren't sup****ted by browsers as images.
> It won't accept .pdf files.
No, you could try an object element, but PDFs are not nice things to
view in a browser window at the best of times, embedded inside a tiny
frame in a page - eugh.
> Is there anyway the user can download a file through the web without
> opening it?
They can configure their client to not use the plugin.
You could also look at sending a content disposition of
attachment. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2183.txt
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