Is there a way to 'force' the browser to download a file instead of opening that?
<a href="file.txt">Download this file</a>
I've tried the method via js using the window.open("file.txt", "Download");
but no success.
Thx.
Updating:
I've done a php file as follow;
<html>
<a href='dl.php?bid=3'>
<php>
$sql="select barquivo from bibilioteca where bid=$_GET[bid]";
$row=mysql_fetch_assoc(mysql_query($sql));
header("Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=biblioteca/$row[barquivo]");
And it download a file "biblioteca_" with 0 bytes.
Is there a way to 'force' the browser to download a file instead of opening that?
<a href="file.txt">Download this file</a>
I've tried the method via js using the window.open("file.txt", "Download");
but no success.
Thx.
Updating:
I've done a php file as follow;
<html>
<a href='dl.php?bid=3'>
<php>
$sql="select barquivo from bibilioteca where bid=$_GET[bid]";
$row=mysql_fetch_assoc(mysql_query($sql));
header("Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=biblioteca/$row[barquivo]");
And it download a file "biblioteca_" with 0 bytes.
Share Improve this question edited Dec 10, 2009 at 18:05 Paulo Bueno asked Dec 10, 2009 at 17:08 Paulo BuenoPaulo Bueno 2,5696 gold badges43 silver badges69 bronze badges 1- The best answer is on this link stackoverflow./questions/1597732/… – Paulo Bueno Commented Dec 10, 2009 at 19:30
5 Answers
Reset to default 4You should do this server-side.
If you send a
Content-type: application/octet
or
Content-disposition: attachment; filename=file.txt
header then the user will be prompted to download.
Not at the javascript level. You can have a good deal of control on what the user agent (browser) will attempt to do, by changing the the Mime Type of the content served - that can be done from the web server or server side application.
That means, your ".txt" file is sent to the browser with a
Content-Type: text/plain
http header. If instead it is served with:
Content-Type: application/octect-stream
http header instead, most likely the user will be prompted to save the file (regardless of the file name or extension)
Can't be done in pure Javascript as far as I know. You have to send the appropriate headers server side.
If you can use Apache´s .htaccess settings (much easier) or PHP (more plicated because you'd have to parse txt files through PHP, or introduce a PHP script to pass through the files), you can refer to the accepted answer given here.
It's up to the server to send the appropriate header.
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