Hi,

I use the Download package with openacs 4.6.1 to offer texts (mainly PDFs) to our students. When you hit the "submit and download" button, the browser tries to load Acrobat Reader and open the file in the browser window, but it this seems it doesnt work in all cases. Some students have trouble with that.

Is it possible to change the download page so you can start a "normal" download ("save file as") instead?

Sorry, poor knowledge ...

Rocael, thanks, but this doesnt work. Its the "Submit and download" from the input form that you klick, not the actual link to the file. See the download page here on openacs.org. When you view the html-source in your browser you'll know what I mean.

Maybe I'll play with the download page template and try to show the actual link to the file instead of the "submit" button.

Just a sidenote... I noticed the problem with openacs.org download section too. Notably, I often do the download so that I right-click and copy the link and then paste+wget the file to the server (only in cases where I need the file on server, of course). This doesn't work when the download works through a form submit. Maybe I'm the only one who have noticed this, but if not, it could be worthwhile to think about different approaches to the download UI. I understand, of course, the need of a form in some cases, but I don't see it that important in the most situations.