Downloading from a server

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Hope this is the right section for this.

So ftp's and servers are pretty alien to me and what i thought would be easy aint workig out that way.

So basically I have an anmation which i need to give to a client but the things a fair old size at 100mb. So using ftp i uploaded it to my webspace.

Now i thought the client would just have to be sent a link and then he could download it but when i test it, all it does is open the animation up on the browser with what seems like no way to actually donload the actual file.

Can anyone offer any advice as to how i get someone to download a file which i've uploaded through ftp?
 
Make a html link tag page, then tell them to right click, save target as/save link as.

Code: 
<html>
<body>
  <a href="yourfile.ext">
</body>
</html>

That's how I would do it anyway :D
 
Hmm Doesnt seem to work, just says website declined to show this page.

Though I thought i had posted this in the wrong section and posted in another where the guy said just change the extension to something the internet wont recognise like .xyz and that seems to do the trick.

That will do for this time but i could still do with working out how to do it without telling the client to change the extension.
 
Also i'm not clued up enough on websites to know how to create a HTML page or is it easy enough done. The website I use at the moment is wordpress if that makes a difference.
 
It's easy as pie.

Open notepad and paste this in

<html>
<body>
<a href="yourfile.ext">Right click & select save as to download</a>
</body>
</html>

Change the bit in red to your file name and extension such as animation.avi.

Click file -> save as -> file name should be index.html and select "save as type: any".

Then just upload the newly created index.html into the same directory as your video and give them the www.yourwebsite.com/movies/ link.
 
Why not just upload it to a file hosting services like Hotfile .
Compressed/encrypt your file and upload it to Hotfile .
Give the link to your client and delete the file after the client downloaded it successfully.
 
Connect to FTP server. Rename file to .avi.zip. Send link to client. Ask client to remove .zip extension upon completion of download.
 
if it was a linux server you could chmod it so that it has no execute rights, that would prevent it from being run, i think. But as long as it has read rights that would allow it to be downloaded. Also if the client is using opera they can stick the link in the quick download box it and it will download.
 
groen said:
if it was a linux server you could chmod it so that it has no execute rights, that would prevent it from being run, i think.
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The web browser can do whatever it likes as long as it can read the file. The file permissions make no difference once the file hits a new file system.
 
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