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jacecoleman
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setting file extension for flex download

Sep 21, 2011 11:17 AM

Hi, I have a flex/flash download app that I use on my website, but a lot of people have trouble with it because they rename the file and accidentally remove the .zip from the end of the file name.  Is there any way that i can prevent this?  I have noticed that when i click to download, the "Save as Type" drop down is blank.  It looks like this:

 

File name: myFileName.zip

Save as type:

 

I'm hoping that im just missing a param that i can set to .zip so that it will look more like this:

 

File name: myFileName

Save as type: .zip

 

 

Thanks!

850 Views   7 Replies   Latest reply: jacecoleman, Apr 10, 2012 7:35 AM
 
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  • UbuntuPenguin
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    1. UbuntuPenguin,
    Sep 21, 2011 11:34 AM   in reply to jacecoleman
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    This is a very, very poor stab in the very, very dark, but is your content-type on the server side set to zip ?

     
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    2. jacecoleman,
    Sep 21, 2011 1:13 PM   in reply to UbuntuPenguin
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    content/mime type is fine, they're just removing the .zip from the filename before downloading.  If they rename the file later and add .zip to it then they can open it.

     
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    3. jacecoleman,
    Sep 23, 2011 7:49 AM   in reply to jacecoleman
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    bump

     
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    4. jacecoleman,
    Sep 26, 2011 12:17 PM   in reply to jacecoleman
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    bump

     
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    5. dmunev,
    Apr 10, 2012 4:45 AM   in reply to jacecoleman
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    Having same issue. Were you able to find a solution?

     
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  • ShardulSingh
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    6. ShardulSingh,
    Apr 10, 2012 7:19 AM   in reply to dmunev
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    Hi,

     

    You can restrict them to save in any other format by making the check.

    Simply add listner for the Event.OPEN on the fileReference and inside this check for your allowed extension,if the extension is not what you want then

    simply right a line there like:-

     

     

    fileReference.cancel();

     

    And addtionally you can give any alert that your file should be of that particular extension.

     

     

     

    with Regards,

    Shardul

     
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    7. jacecoleman,
    Apr 10, 2012 7:35 AM   in reply to dmunev
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    I ended up using flex to call a JavaScript function on the parent page that has the URL of my zip file as the only param.  Then i set the document location to the url specified to force the browser to download the zip file.  This works much better in my opinion and we haven't seen any support tickets since the change.

     
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