If you are storing your files to your Amazon S3 account instead of your server then you can complete the following to ensure a force download of those files takes place. Set the correct headers on your files in Amazon S3 in order to force the browser to download rather than opening the file. You will need to set them when uploading the files to S3. If you have your downloadable item stored in a drop-box account, there is a way to ensure this item is always forced to download when a user clicks on it.
See the example below for the correct positioning of this parameter:. Your email address will not be published. If a browser can read the file type it will show it in the browser. If the browser cannot read a file type it will force a download to the hard disk.
Usually this is not an issue since the users can save the file to their computer after it is shown in the browser. Some users prefer that all the files should be forced downloaded no showing in the browser. There are a few things you can do to ensure that. Browsers cannot read zip file so it will force a download. Most computer users know to unzip the file and get the content from inside.
Option 2: Most browsers have a settings where it lets the users specify if they want to force download a certain type of files for example: a pdf file. You can instruct your users to use this option if you think it will help them again this is common knowledge and most internet users know this.
Option 3: You can add the following lines of code in your. 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.
Set the correct headers on your files in Amazon S3 in order to force the browser to download rather than opening the file. Set these:. I'm a software developer and manager in the daytime and tinkerer in the evenings. I love technology and making stuff. Titan Theme by The Theme Foundry.
Follow: RSS. Tags cache , chrome , compile. The solution, with the cause now found, is equally simple: menu, settings , scroll to bottom, click advanced , click clear browsing data and select how long a time you have been frustrated: last day usually does it for me.
And then click Clear browsing data. At least Chrome has the choice of time period, to avoid having to erase the entire cache. That would both have taken some serious disk activity as well as slowed down browsing for a few days. Though, Here's the compatibility table of download attribute. This must be known. HTML 5 download attribute did this.. There is nothing wrong with the correctness of the answer.
It is just not useful. The fact that you find it cumbersome to wade through all possible duplicates only illustrates my point, there is no need for yet another duplicate that adds to the pile of possible duplicates.
Doesn't work for me in Safari 8. ChrisWesseling down voting the answer because the question is a dupe sounds ridiculous, why does that have anything to do with the answerer? It'd be one thing if he copied an answer on the same question , but this is not that case. If you have no other alternatives to force the file to download, you can host it on a file hosting service such as Google Docs.
The most common file types that are affected by this behavior are PDF files and images. The code below will tell the browser to prompt the user to save the file. This link does not have the download attribute.
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