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I have a folder my_folder, and inside of that folder is a file my_file. I would like to create a link Download my folder on my website, so that when the user clicks on it, the user’s file directory comes up and the user can choose where to put my_folder (which contains my_file.) How can I implement this functionality?
I know that to allow the user to download a file, I can simply link to that file. But what about a folder?
From personal experience I have not seen a way to download a whole directory. You would probably have to dynamically zip the folder up and make the resulting zip downloadable.
In HTML 5 you could use something like this to download a single file
The download attribute will force a download dialog for the user.
Hope this puts you on the right track and maybe someone can prove me wrong on that directory download.