i just got a call from a customer and they were complaining thats its too combersome to download the file they paid for from me so i thought i would write you and see if maybe you could assist..

as it is set up now, the files (about 30 of them they are pdf files by the way ) are in a pw folder on lp.  when a customer wants a file they pay me then i go in manually and set them up a username and  pw on the folder.

then they go back to the web page click on the file again, log in and the download automattcally starts in the browser.
thats all good accept for the really large files of 300mb, so what i tell them to do is to log in, close the page, then go back to the page and right click on the file and select target as...  the system remembers they already logged in so then they can just choose their location and it wont tie up their memory or browser...

what i woudl like to do is to just open a windows download box, and never have it downlaod to the browser only again.  but i have never done that.  
 how is that accomplished ? they click on the file on the web page, log in and get  the download box.


is it as simple as on the webpage the file links are listed on to put a meta tag in the header for this :
Content-disposition: attachment; filename=fname.ext

ok i just zipped one of the files, replaced the link on my site and clicked and i got the download box... i guess thats the lesser of two evils   so i guess ill be zipping my butt off today to get the pdf switched to zips today..