Hi,

I'm making a site, where one of the links is "download podcast" which is then just linking to a .mp4 file.

The .mp4 file just automatically loads into a browser if a user has quicktime installed, is there a way to just have it so that the link can have a prompt asking to download the file to a computer?

Thanks

Not with HTML.

Well, can it be done with Javasript or Jquery or anything like that?

After a little investigating though, I don't think that can be done. I might just add a javascript hover over the link with instructions to right click "save target as to download this podcast."

have a zipped copy of the file of the server, and have the download link point to the zip file, and it will prompt to download.

Originally Posted by Reckoner

Well, can it be done with Javasript or Jquery or anything like that?

Nope, server side code ONLY

Originally Posted by ModDish

have a zipped copy of the file of the server, and have the download link point to the zip file, and it will prompt to download.

Not necessarily, the end user may have set it so .zip files open automatically rather than prompt or download.

Originally Posted by ModDish

have a zipped copy of the file of the server, and have the download link point to the zip file, and it will prompt to download.

This is a good idea. I might just stick with it... I highly doubt that anyone viewing my site would even know how to configure a .zip file to their browser.

Thanks for the responses guys.

PHP can do just that!

http://php.net/manual/en/function.header.php

Check that out, and before you go posting in the PHP section that it doesn't work, make sure that you don't have ANY OUTPUT before the header() declaration!