I have a client who just posted some rather large videos on their site. This being one of the few sites I’m working on that’s static HTML and not a CMS solution, I just linked the files directly in the HTML. This didn’t work so well, because one of the movies was 13mb and was causing timeouts on Internet Explorer and long, confusing waits on Safari. I needed a way to force the user to download the file to their desktop and open it locally, but I didn’t want to wrap everything in zip files. Luckily, I came across this little script that does just that, and using it isn’t any harder than adding a direct link to the file itself. Just drop it in your root directory and go.