Need to know if download successful

[pdg5001]

Hello,

I have seen this question asked quite a few times, but I am yet to find an answer. I suspect because it can't be done?....

If a web page has an anchor that the user can click to download a document, is there any way *on the client side* to know if they completed that download?

So if I have something like this:

<a href="bigfile.zip" onclick="myOnClick(this);">Download Me</a>

then I was hoping that there might be some way of being told when the file was downloaded. window.onload below doesn't work, but hopefully it'll illustrate what I'm trying to do:

<script type="text/javascript">
function myOnClick(anchor)
{
    window.onload = function(){alert(window.location);};

    window.location = anchor.href;
}
</script>

[DanInMA]

will this help? - http://geekswithblogs.net/GruffCode/...e-browser.aspx

[A1ien51]

No way with html/javascript

Eric