how do I provide a webpage button to start a file download?

[Alan H]

I would like to provide a webpage button that will start a file download to
the requestors computer from my web site. How would I go about doing this?

 

[Steve Easton]

Import the file into your web.
Create a link to it just like any other link.

It's usually an good idea to "zip" the file as zipped files always force the browser to download.

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[MD Websunlimited]

Hi Alan,

One of two ways both of which assume the file is present on your web site.

1. Create a form that uses the GET method and the action attribute is the URL to the file.
2. Create a link to the file.

In both cases how the file is downloaded will depend upon how the MIME is configured on the web server. The most trusted case is to
use a zip.

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