Question

I am not sure if this is possible using standard web technologies.

I want the user to be able to download multiple files in a single action. That is click check boxes next to the files, and then get all the files that were checked.

Is it possible – if so what basic strategy do you recommend. I know I can use comets technology to create server side events that trigger an HttpResponse but I am hoping there is a simpler way.

Answer 1

HTTP does not support more than one file download at once.

There are two solutions:

• Open x amount of windows to initiate the file downloads (this would be done with JavaScript)
• preferred solution create a script to zip the files