html for button and code to allow user to download an application

Question

allow user to download an application

Answer 1

Do you realize (a) how totally inadequate your question is for anyone who might be moved to answer it, and (b) that you are asking this question in a forum dedicated to a woefully inadequate and underpowered graphics editor (Expression Design), instead of a forum dedicated to a Web editor (Expression Web), where at least the forum regulars might have the knowledge and willingness to answer, provided you actually fleshed the question out sufficiently to make it answerable (Is it a text button defined by CSS, or an image button found in a folder in your Web? Where is the application found? What is its extension? [Most business systems will NOT permit executable downloads] And so forth...) If you cannot answer these questions, you don't know enough to use whatever HTML anyone might provide to answer your question.

cheers,
scott

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Answer 2

That's a not a very good answer.  I would like to download a zipped file from a server to be extracted on my PC.  I would like to download it using FTP.  Can you point me to some type of sample that would do this using Expression Web4?

Answer 3

First of all, you do not appear to be user "is there another program out there that replaces a's threads" (AKA Bill Ketchum) so you do not own this thread, and you do not have the right to describe my answer to him in any way, period.

Second, my answer was as good as could possibly be given to the asinine and wholly inadequate information given by the OP in the original post.

Third, since you are not the OP, and are asking a distinct question, you should have started your own thread, in the Expression Web forum, NOT in the Expression Design forum.

Fourth, when you do ask your question, you need to be clearer than you have been here. Are you saying that you want to provide a link to a zipped file on your Web site, so that someone visiting can download and extract it? If so, simply place the file in a folder on your server, then create a hyperlink to it anywhere on your page. A visitor clicking on it will automatically evoke a save dialog to save to their local machine. I'm not sure what protocol is used for the download, I suspect HTTP, but I also don't see where it makes any difference one way or the other as long as the file is downloaded.

If that is not what you mean, then restate your question in such a way that enough information is provided so that we can answer it.

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