normally when a visitor clicks on a pdf file the adobe acrobat reader opens it .i have a big file(6 mb) and so i dont want it to be opened while browsing my site ,Rather it should get downloaded properly so reader can use it later on for offline reading ...
what should i do ??

I found exactly what you want here: http://www.aspalliance.com/shark/art...s/DnldDoc.aspx

I don't really know if it just applies to ASP, but give it a look over and see what you think.

Rob

Here's an old one I found to do with PHP

[php]
function download($path)

global $HTTP_USER_AGENT;
$file=basename($path);
$size = filesize($path);
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
header("Content-Length: $size");
// IE5.5 just downloads index.php if we don't do this
if(preg_match("/MSIE 5.5/", $HTTP_USER_AGENT))

header("Content-Disposition: filename=$file");
} else

header("Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename=$file");
}
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
$fh = fopen($path, "r");
fpassthru($fh);
}

Ahh here's what we were looking for originally:
http://rtfm.atrax.co.uk/infinitemonk...es/asp/934.asp

<%@Language="JScript"%><%

// forcing download
var objStream = new ActiveXObject("ADODB.Stream");
objStream.Type = 1;
objStream.Open();
objStream.loadFromFile(Server.MapPath("/infinitemonkeys/sources/infinite.pdf"));

Response.ContentType = 'application/unknown';
Response.addHeader('content-disposition', 'attachment;filename=infinite.pdf');
Response.BinaryWrite(objStream.read());

%>