Question

In my ApiController class, I have following method to download a file created by server.

public HttpResponseMessage Get(int id)
{
    try
    {
        string dir = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~"); //location of the template file
        Stream file = new MemoryStream();
        Stream result = _service.GetMyForm(id, dir, file);
        if (result == null)
        {
            return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.NotFound);
        }
        result.Position = 0;
        HttpResponseMessage response = new HttpResponseMessage();
        response.StatusCode = HttpStatusCode.OK;
        response.Content = new StreamContent(result);
        return response;
    }
    catch (IOException)
    {
        return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.InternalServerError);
    }
}

Everything is working perfect except that default downloading file name is its id so user might have to type his/her own file name at save as dialog each time. Is there any way to set a default file name in the code above?

Answer 1

You need to set the Content-Disposition header on the HttpResponseMessage:

HttpResponseMessage response = new HttpResponseMessage();
response.StatusCode = HttpStatusCode.OK;
response.Content = new StreamContent(result);
response.Content.Headers.ContentDisposition = new ContentDispositionHeaderValue("attachment")
{
    FileName = "foo.txt"
};