I want to easily allow my users to fetch a PDF file located on my hard disk.
How could I "push" the file to them so the download/open file prompt opens for them?
A:
Run a web server on your computer. This one - http://www.acme.com/java/software/Acme.Serve.Serve.html - is powerful enough to do what you want, and small enough to be easy to setup and run.
Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
2010-07-02 21:05:56
A:
Just upload the file to the website, and give them a link to it. It will open in Adobe Reader, or they can Right Click > Save As to save it to their computer.
By default, the browser only opens the Download/Save dialog when presented with a file type that it, and all it's plugins, are unable to handle.
Macha
2010-07-02 21:07:42