Download over Port 80

[sirlance]

Web Download

I've been given the task to figure out how to automatically download files and execute application via a URL link on our web page. So far, I haven't found out how to do this with http (port 80). I need to be able to do it over port 80.

Any advice would be appriciated. I'm using IIS 5.0 on a W2K Server. The Web page was designed with FrontPage.

Lance

 

[globalstrata]

Under the Web site properties in IIS, Home Directory tab, enable Dir. Browsing.

Gladys I. Rodriguez - MCSE, CCDA, MCP+I
GlobalStrata Solutions Inc.

http://www.globalstrata.com

 

[sirlance]

Thanks Gladys, but I don't think I was very clear on what I'm looking for. I apologize.

What I actually need is for the "save, open, cancel" box to open when a user clicks the link for a file. In addition, if the user select open, it will open in the application it was written in (ex Word, Excel, etc) or run the bat or exe file automatically.
In the same sense if the user selects save, a box will open for local location.

Lance

 

[disord3r]

When a users visits your website and requets a file other than the ones web server normally processes (ASP, HTML, SHTML, etc), they should get a prompt to download it by default. As long as the account that IIS runs as (IUSER something or other) has access to the file and correct permissions set to retrieve the file, any user that has access to the web server should be able to download these files.

As far as the "execute application" part, are you talking about an running your web server as Application Server? One in which the users have a client program that is constantly communicating with the web server? That's a bit more complicated, and something that I'm not familiar with.