Response.Redirect to a document

[tarrike]

Is there a way to Response.Redirect to a document (mydoc.doc)? I can create a link to the doc and it opens just fine. But when I try to redirect to it all I get is binary garbage.

  aValues(2) = "Mydoc_in_a_special_directory.ppt"
...
  page = "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.myweb.com/admin/docs/"[/URL] & aValues(2)
  Response.Write( &quot;<br><B> DEBUG: </B> &quot; & page) 
  Response.Redirect(page)

When I comment out the .Redirect the .Write is creating the link correctly, But when it redirects I get garbage.

Any thoughts, suggestions and/or comments will be appreciated

Thanks...

 

[denoxis]

Hmm.. browser can't handle this way I guess.

Would you like to use javascript instead?

response.write &quot;<SCRIPT>&quot; & chr(13) & chr(10) & &quot;document.location = '&quot; & page & &quot;';&quot; & chr(13) & chr(10) &&quot;</SCRIPT>&quot;

 

[tarrike]

I'm not at all opposed to running a script, I just need to go to the document that selected...

 

[rac2]

Would that be a powerpoint document that you want to open when you re-direct?

I find that redirect works just fine if I open a Word document like so.

Response.Redirect(&quot;

http://my.domain.com/surveytabulate.doc&quot;);

 

[tarrike]

I don't have the luxury of hard coding it in. There may be from 1 to 100's of documents in the directory I am building the list from. I need to create a link to a document, be it Word, Excel or Powerpoint, log that the document was opened, and display it to the user.

Does that clear up any questions?

Thanks for the input...

 

[fillup07]

The server is probably kinda executing the file and showing the text part of it (like if you open a PPT file in Notepade). There's a long function in the sitepoint forums that will probably do what you want. I can look it up if you want. -Phil
fillup07@hotmail.com

 

[tarrike]

okay, to redirect to a document, you have to tell the server what type it is first, by using Response.ContentType.

In playing with it, this seemed to open all of my documents.

Response.ContentType = "application/word"

Thanks to all
Tom