I think he was talking about browsing your own computer from a form. When using the browse feature, a window opens on your computer to browse your files for selecting the one you want to upload to the site.

However, the original question involved browsing files on a site and then downloading to the visitor. Actually, browsers download files from a site automatically. If they didn't, you wouldn't be able to view the site.

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