Dear members,

I would like to open a word docment as Read-only in ASP . Is it self possible ??

Here is the code I use


Response.ContentType = "text/plain"
Response.AddHeader "content-disposition", "attachment; filename=mon_fichier.doc"



Thank you in advance

The ultimate answer is no, not really. You are effectively downloading the document to the users machine, you have no control over what they do once it is down there.

You could use pdf to do it.....

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I would like to open a word docment as Read-only in ASP . Is it self possible ??
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Just a regular link to a Word doc should let the user open it up. And he's probably NOT going to be able to save it back to the Web site.

And of course you could set the Word doc's read-only property from Windows Explorer (right-click...) but a user could easily save the file to his hard drive and then uncheck the attribute and then make changes to the file on his own PC.

And some related resources:

Article: Dynamically Writing Office Documents
http://www.infinetsoftware.com/conte...edocuments.asp
Response.ContentType = "application/msword"
Response.AddHeader "Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename=receipt.doc"

Build an Easy Maintenance Intranet Site: Using Office Docs, File System Object, and OLE Structured Storage by Josef Finsel
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/0300/fso/
Assumes that a directory can be allowed access to only the human resources dept.

Yeah, good point, unless you provide a specific function they will not be able to save the document back tot he server so the server version is effectively read only but once it is downloaded you are basically stuffed....