If I used your site and I didn't get the expected behaviour I would be annoyed. I know that but our client request that — user Show 1 more comment. Active Oldest Votes. WriteFile HttpRuntime. Improve this answer. Mark Cooper 6, 5 5 gold badges 52 52 silver badges 87 87 bronze badges.
AlliterativeAlice AlliterativeAlice Add a comment. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Lucky Pierre Lucky Pierre 4 4 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. Yes figured! Show 1 more comment. This is for ASP. FilePath, FileMode. Open, FileAccess. Leon van Wyk Leon van Wyk 8 8 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges. Oops, there were typing errors in my previous post. Andrew Barber What previous post?
If you have Apache add this to the. Alexander Alexander 43 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. Kindly suggest me. Thanks in advance. That does the opposite to what is asked for — Quentin. Nervous Laughter By default , when you open a pdf file in firefox, it will provide you with a popup to either save the pdf file or to open it directly and there is also a check box which says do this action automatically from now on and guess who selected it.
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What if their backend is in Python or. He doesn't even say what framework he's talking about. I have used this code and it worked perfectly. Mohsin Mohsin 5 2 2 bronze badges. No mention that they use Apache.
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You're answer will not work. If you are offering a large item, even if this is a pdf it is recommended to force this download. Your visitor may want to read this later on so having it saved to their downloads file can allow them to do this. If your customer has paid money to purchase the download, then forcing the download can ensure that they receive what they have paid for.
While viewing the download within the browser can often work for images, your user may forget to save it prior to exiting.
This means that they no longer have a copy of what they purchased. If you wish for all your downloadable content to be automatically saved on your visitors computer complete one of the following options depending on your developer knowledge and website needs :. Encapsulating your downloadable items in a zip file will ensure they are forced to download.
In an effort to make modern browsers more user friendly, their developers have started to display content inside the web browser that used to require an additional application to view or a user may want to download instead.
Many browsers such as Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Google Chrome have the default behavior of viewing the file in the browser window instead of prompting the user to save the file to a location.
As long as you have the ability to edit the HTML code of the page, you can use a simple HTML tweak that will allow you to control when the file download prompt appears if the user clicks a link or a button.
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.
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