Delivering Quality » HTTP Headers http://www.markdeepwell.com A Software Developers View of the World Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:38:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 HTTP Header to Force Browser Download http://www.markdeepwell.com/2010/03/http-header-to-force-browser-download/ http://www.markdeepwell.com/2010/03/http-header-to-force-browser-download/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:12:45 +0000 Mark http://www.markdeepwell.com/?p=485 A content disposition header can be used to tell web browsers to ask the user where they want to save the file (and download it) instead of actually opening the file in a browser tab/window. Very handy if you want to have a download button.

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="filename.mp3"

Tested in: Firefox, Safari, IE, Opera, and Google Chrome

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