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OK, a bot premiture, 1 problem I have discovered is that it saves the zip file with the same name and extension as your ASP page. But there maybe away around that.
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There is a way around that:

Response.AddHeader "Content-disposition", "filename=thefile.zip"
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Thanks Mart that does the trick.

I think I'll start using it for this site, to prevent people from linking directly to the files.
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Wow this is great! Exactly the kind of thing I was looking for.

My whole point is like you said -boRg- :

Originally posted by -boRg- -boRg- wrote:

...to prevent people from linking directly to the files.

This is exactly what I was thinking, which is why I wanted something like this!

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