Saving LiveCycle PDF without opening the PDF

One of our legacy web sites still uses LiveCycle 7.1 to generate and serve up PDFs to our end users. Instead of displaying the PDF, we would like to let the end user click a button on our site to pop up a file save dialog so that they can save the generated PDF directly to their local drive without opening/displaying the PDF in Reader.
Is this possible, and if so, how?
Thanks!
BTW - We are planning to retire this website in the next year or so and have no plans to upgrade or continue using LiveCycle once this functionality is migrated to our newer site.

I have a script that I am trying to cobble together, but I am stuck at attempting to execute an SQL query against and ADO connection. My code is as follows:Powershell $FQDNUpper = $Computer.ToUpper() + ".domain.dn1.dn2" $FQDNLower = $Computer.ToLower() + ".domain.dn1.dn2" $shell = New-Object -ComObject "Wscript.Shell" # for use later in script $cnn = New-Object -ComObject "ADODB.Connection" $cnn.ConnectionString = "Connection_String" $cnn.Open() $queryUpper = "SELECT CAST(ID AS nvarchar(50)) ID FROM Machine WHERE Name=$FQDNUpper AND Role = 0" $rs = $cnn.Execute($queryUpper,' ',1) #If statement that will qualify if $FQDNUpper returned anything else try $FQDNLowerWhen executing the code I receive an error:
PowershellArgument: '2' should be a System.Management.Automation.PSReference. Use [ref].At line:9 char:5+ $rs = $cnn.Execute(...

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