Re: opening abiword from an html link

From: Eric Thomas (info@idalot.com)
Date: Fri Aug 09 2002 - 02:19:18 EDT

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    Sorry Martin, it didn't work. IE still displays it, even as a "gz"
    file. It's not necessary that the browser display the abiword document as
    all users have abiword installed. If they could just click it and the file
    gets downloaded and opened in abiword (MIME type is already set), then that
    would suffice. Right now, we have to do a right click and "save as" and
    save it to the hard drive, then go open it in abiword. I would like to cut
    out that step if possible.

    Thanks,
    Eric

    At 03:53 PM 8/9/2002 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
    >On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 14:44, Eric Thomas wrote:
    > > I'm having a bit of a problem with opening an abiword document from a web
    > > link. I've written a script to automatically create abiword documents
    > from
    > > a template file with data supplied from a database. The script then
    > writes
    > > an HTML page with a link to the document. On clicking the link, however,
    > > the browser just displays the source as an XML file.
    > >
    > > Any suggestions???
    > >
    >
    >Interesting. You need a browser to display abiword documents ideally :-)
    >Since it might be hard to convince MS to do that with IE, the next best
    >thing might be to write a plugin for IE that displays it.
    >
    >However I think what you really want is for the browser to automatically
    >open abiword. You might try gzipping the abiword file so the broiwser
    >does sniff it and open it as plain text. If the file is presented to
    >abiword it will be openned correct;y. It will also reduce the size the
    >the document by about a factor of 10.
    >
    >Cheers
    >
    >Martin
    >
    >
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    Thanks,
    Eric

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