Shortcut file

[Anonymous Monk]

Does anybody know how to create a shortcut file, a desired (not default) icon plus URL in it, so the user can download it in one step to her desktop and click the shortcut to the URL?

Thanks in advance.

[Chady]

Is this Perl??
are you sure you posted inside the right WebSite??
anyway... it is really a text file that contains this:


[DEFAULT]
BASEURL=http://chady.net/index2.cgi

[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://chady.net/index2.cgi

IconIndex=4
IconFile=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\url.dll

try it.

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Chady | http://chady.net/

[$code or die]

You'll also want to make sure the user saves it with a .url extension. This will also only work on IE, I think.

I would do this to supply a default filename:


my $filename = 'internetshortcut.url';
print "Content-disposition: filename=$filename\n";
print "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n";

# print the content of the URL file.

The user will be prompted to save the file with the supplied default filename.

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