Browser is running files instead of downloading

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The download doesn't work with all browser. Download attribute won't work if the href link used is of different domain due to CORS refer — bubesh. You can't force Chrome to download instead of opening the PDF with only clientside javascript.

To force a download, it is necessary to add the 'Content-Disposition: attachment' to the HTTP header, and that can only be done in the server side. MatrixTai in that question Alexandar said it is working in chrome but in my scene it is not working in chrome also. Show 6 more comments. Active Oldest Votes.

This will inform the browser of your intent in a standards compliance manner. War War 8, 3 3 gold badges 43 43 silver badges 91 91 bronze badges. Have you try it to download a pdf? Click the blue warning sign and select Turn off ActiveX Filtering. Failed to load featured products content, Please try again. Customers who viewed this article also viewed. Log in to Verify Download Permissions. Steps remain for any users not fully updated to the latest and greatest.

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Citrix cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the incorrect use of Registry Editor can be solved. Yeah, but if that happens for other users? How will they know to just go clear the Browsing Data? Please why download the page link when you click on it instead of displaying the note and you experience this problem in all chrome browsers And fayrfox and Microsoft edge At the same time on an Android mobile phone.

On Windows, this opens the file in Notepad. Would like to know how to read any. It started to happen to me as well, tried clearing my browser history. Still no luck, can someone help me understand why? I need to my site to work. Even i have the same problem, In my case http requests are giving problem and https no issues , I using nginx reverse proxy.. If someone can help here Thanks. Your email address will never be published. Subscribe to this comment feed via RSS.

Why is Apache downloading PHP files instead of displaying them? After updating PHP to 7. Why is my PHP script not showing up? So here is another possible cause: If you have something like in a. In my case the server did not know the x-mapp-php6 type, since that.