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In some cases, the name of the file that is stored on the web server is not the most useful to the user. As of this post, all major desktop browsers excluding Microsoft IE support the download attribute. It is likely that people who use these browsers would likely rather view the document rather than saving it to their phone.

New to HTML 5. This markup is easier to understand and is supported by all modern browsers, but may not be supported by all content management systems.

What exact code did you use? This topic has 12 replies, 7 voices, and was last updated 6 years, 4 months ago by HowardYeomans. Viewing 13 posts - 1 through 13 of 13 total. January 14, at am How Browsers Work With File Downloads Usually when a user goes to a file URL for example: a download link , the file will show in the browser if the browser supports it.

Force File to Download from Your Amazon S3 Account If you are storing your files to your amazon S3 account instead of your server then do the following to force a download on those files. March 31, at pm Is there any way to accomplish option 3 with files hosted on Amazon S3? The full size audio files for purchase will be stored at S3. Follow up question: Previously, when the audio file loaded in the browser instead of downloading , the URL in the address bar included my S3 Access Key ID — not simply the encrypted link.

Is that a security risk? Thanks again. April 1, at pm April 16, at am September 7, at am Hello — Is it possible to force a download to mobile devices? March 16, at am Questions about coding your sharepoint web sites should be addressed to a sharepoint forum.

To avoid confusion you should mention that it is indeed a sharepoint web site in your questions and not just a 'web site'.. I understand that IE is going to sniff the MIME type of the http response and run some "magic" behind the scenes to determine how it should render or act on that response. I assume the configuration for this behavior is somewhere - probably the registry. What I am looking for is the keys from the registry i can look at on the client machines that this works on and hopefully export those keys to client machines where it doesn't work.

You first test would be to be to reset the Security zone settings for IE on the faulting workstation s. Security zone tab, click "Reset all zones to default". What are your IIS mime-type settings for a file with that extension.

If possible include links to the websites you are having problems with your questions so that we can inspect your server responses. Naturally, company intranet sites are not publicly accessible. Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Instead of downloading, files are opening in browser Ask Question. Asked 3 years, 1 month ago.

Active 2 years, 2 months ago. Viewed 14k times. MrtN 9 9 bronze badges. Amit Chauhan Amit Chauhan 1 1 gold badge 3 3 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. The download doesn't work with all browser. Download attribute won't work if the href link used is of different domain due to CORS refer — bubesh.

You can't force Chrome to download instead of opening the PDF with only clientside javascript. To force a download, it is necessary to add the 'Content-Disposition: attachment' to the HTTP header, and that can only be done in the server side. MatrixTai in that question Alexandar said it is working in chrome but in my scene it is not working in chrome also.

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