Re: opening abiword from an html link

From: Eric Thomas (info@idalot.com)
Date: Wed Aug 14 2002 - 02:48:38 EDT

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    That was exactly the ticket!!

    Thanks for the help Frank!

    Eric

    At 09:00 AM 8/9/2002 +0100, F J Franklin wrote:
    >On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Eric Thomas wrote:
    > > I'm having a bit of a problem with opening an abiword document from a web
    > > link. I've written a script to automatically create abiword documents
    > from
    > > a template file with data supplied from a database. The script then
    > writes
    > > an HTML page with a link to the document. On clicking the link, however,
    > > the browser just displays the source as an XML file.
    >
    >I think there are two steps to this:
    >
    >1. configure your web-server to serve .abw files with MIME info:
    > application/x-abiword (I think)
    >
    >2. instruct users to associate MIME-type "application/x-abiword" with
    > AbiWord in MSIE's "Preferences"->"Receiving Files"->"File Helpers"
    > section.
    >
    >(I haven't tried this myself, though.)
    >
    >Otherwise, I'm not sure. There may be a way to use J[ava]Script to prompt
    >IE to open a link in a given application.
    >
    >Regards, Frank
    >
    >Francis James Franklin
    >F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk
    >
    >"No, she really likes me. She told me I look like Britney Spears, and why
    >would you say that to somebody you don't like?"
    > --- Elle Woods

    Thanks,
    Eric

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