How to create a download webpage button

DevilWAH

Does any one know how to create a button in HTML that down load the current webpage, rather than open it ?

What i want is to dynamicly create a webpage (see my script help thread)

and on that page have a button that will allow users to click to download/save the page as a text file.

idealy i dont want to use and client side scripting so it is complety portable, but if not some simple jave coded would be ok i supose. as long is it will work cross browser and OS.

Any ideas ?

Cheers


wondering if the folowwing code can help.

use LWP::Simple;

getstore( 'http://www.somehost.com/somepage.html',
'/home/Sarsamkar/somepage.html' );

DevilWAH

DevilWAH

This is all using perl at the moment. Is it possible to get the webserver to save the page created localy as a text file using the perl code. Then I can just create a link to the file for the user to click.

this is the way I would like to do it, but at the moment the only way I can see is to run the code once to create the webpage and a second time to create the txt file?

Devilsbane

I've seen it before where it puts code in like a text box and then has a copy button there. I don't know how they do it though.

DevilWAH

ok bit more info
below is the source code output from the script I wrote.

what can I add at the bottom that will allow a user to save the page as a text file by clicking a button.

what i wanted to do was add an html button that called a script to use the lwp::simple to capture the webpage as text. and then link to the file created to download it.

does any one know how to call a script with an html button with out opening a seperate page? Still trying to do this all server side.


my thoughts would be the button would be some thing like

on click=

<iframe src="html_intro.asp" width="0" height="0">
##"call the script to create the file"
## "download the txt file"
</iframe>

And the script would be simply
{
use lwp::simple
getstore ( "/cgi-bin/scriptwriter.cgi" , "/cgi-bin/scripts/script.text" );
}

Could this work ?

Cheers

Aaron

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DevilWAH

Devilsbane wrote: »

I've seen it before where it puts code in like a text box and then has a copy button there. I don't know how they do it though.

hold on thats a very good idea!!!

if the script is written to a text box, that is in its self a form, then a second submit button to some perl code makes it simple to write the contents to a file and down load it!!

I like it!

DevilWAH

DevilWAH

if only i could give you more rep thts a great idea devil and works perfect

Devilsbane

No problem, glad I could help.

DevilWAH

Devilsbane wrote: »

No problem, glad I could help.

not sure if you saw but heres the code I used to pass the text box data to

http://www.techexams.net/forums/off-topic/59688-script-repository.html#post500038