[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by SupraT

OK I did the upgrade, however, as you have stated it has not changed the problem. Did you try the download? See how a window opens in the back ground that states you are being redirected, then the SAVE AS window appears. Well the pop-up window in background is still there and if you highlight the :forward to link" you see the URL.

How do I stop that?

I see that you're offering rather large zips and exes. Downloads with recognised mimetypes are handled differently than downloads with unrecognised memetypes, where the redirection window is used. Does your VB main admin have mime settings for zip and exe?

Go to VB's main admin, then attachment, then extensions and sizes. The appropriate mimetype for a zip file is

Content-type: application/zip

. For an executable, you can just create the exe attachment type and leave the mimetype field empty.

Normally, when the file has a recognised mimetype, the download is handled transparently, so the user does not get to see where the file is stored.

*But* a big warning - if you choose this route, you are increasing the cpu load on your server. This is normally only a problem if the files are held on a third party machine, because then your server has to keep reading, then rewriting records. This is why I added the force_redirect switch on the links admin page, to force the hack always to use redirection rather than read/rewrite to user.

The link on the redirection window ("click here if you do not get redirected") is being created within the standard VB code. There may be a way to suppress it, but I'm not sure.