this is what i want to do:

we have a bunch of wmv movies in our member's area. we want the customer to be able to do a simple left mouse button click and have the movie be downloaded to their computer. however, the problem is that when they click on the "a href" link, the movie opens up in windows media player instead of popping up the box to confirm the download.


this is my current solution:

i have a CGI script that i'm passing the name of the wmv file to. the CGI script then reads in the wmv file, and then prints out the MIME header: Content-Type:application/x-download, along with the content to be downloaded.


the current problem:

way, way, way too CPU intensive. it's eating up all my juice.


is there an easier solution?

(i have thought about zipping up the wmv file into a zip file, but the problem is we are also streaming this video and we don't want to have a .wmv version AND .zip version of the same movie...it would take up too much hard drive space)