File not downloading html

Friday, August 19, PM. Monday, August 22, AM. Hello Steve. Proposed as answer by croute1 Friday, August 19, PM. Sitaraman 0. Rename the html file as. This worked fine in SharePoint Thanks Linda. I will do that as well. Have a great day. Monday, August 22, PM. Please don't make up headers and send them. Could you update your answer. Be careful when using this code verbatim, though. This code is likely dangerous in another way. Could be used by an attacker to attempt to scan your internal network for exposed PDF files.

Not to mention how easy it would be to bypass any "sanity checks" you think you'll be doing to the "file" parameter. Show 8 more comments. Alex V Alex V The readfile function is indeed faster. I personally recommend using this answer instead of the accepted one — Jose Garrido. Rob W Rob W k 76 76 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. TecBrat Yes, but that was what the OP asked.

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Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Reducing the weight of our footer. Linked 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. To trigger a file download on a button click we will use a custom function or HTML 5 download attribute. Approach 1: Using Download attribute The download attribute simply uses an anchor tag to prepare the location of the file that needs to be downloaded. The name of the file can be set using the attribute value name, if not provided then the original filename will be used. Example: Hey geek!

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