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. This is a simple technique that forces the download as browsers are unable to read a zip file. The majority of your users will know that they will need to open this file to then receive their downloadable content.
Copy the link to the browser's URL field, or use a downloader to get the file. Hey man did you solved this problem. Can you share the solution. I'm facing the same problem,i eant to download the pdf but i cant. Please can you help. The document can only be scrolled up and down but not able to download the doc I think downloading is locked.
If this is really a PDF file, then viewing it requires downloading it. It's probably saved on your computer as a temporary file. You can also edit the file the browsers handles PDF files and tell it to save it, instead of opening it inline. However, I suspect this is not really a PDF, but some kind of presentation of it in another format. Not sure why you say you are using Chrome, FyTg.
Thanks for the help, i could solve the problem doing a different thing. By clicking show thumbnails, then print, then save as PDF i can now download it.
You don't need to do all that. If you're using FireFox, just use the download button, that's what it's for! Apparently there are ways to lock down the download feature. I've attached the example I am currently struggling with for your information. I am sorry the right click menu is in German, but trust me when I say that there is no download option there either. Let me know if you have any other ideas. That doesn't look at all like that. And Chrome doesn't allow any other PDF viewer. From this we can conclude that this is not a PDF at all.
It's a web site designed to offer something in pages, and so it's easily mistaken for a PDF. It might have been a PDF back on its web site in China, but that isn't what is delivered to you. Hence, this discussion does not apply. It does not work on IE. I tested it on a virtual machine, in which no pdf reader was installed yet. In that case the file is always downloaded. This is a good solution for people who don't want to make changes to their server config. The download attribute was added in HTML5.
Bird Bird 1, 7 7 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. This needs to be done in the server side. You can't do this at the client side. How to do it depends on the server side language in question.
NET: Response. BalusC BalusC 1. For IIS: Put all files you want to force to download in their own folder. Add a new header with the following info: Name: content-disposition Value: attachment All files in that folder, when accessed, should prompt the save as dialog box for the appropriate browser.
Justin Emlay Justin Emlay 8 8 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. Works really well and don't have to create a page specifically for forcing files to download.
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