I wish to have a user click on a link to a video file and then have a dialog box open for them to save to file. I don’t wish for the browser to open quicktime or any other plugin to process the video. how can this be done?
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I wish to have a user click on a link to a video file and then have a dialog box open for them to save to file. I don’t wish for the browser to open quicktime or any other plugin to process the video. how can this be done?
You can’t do this with JavaScript alone. Your server should set
Content-Dispositionheader toattachment. For example in php you do something likeheader("Content-Disposition:attachment;");