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Asked: 2026-05-13T01:15:44+00:00

Is there a way to ‘force’ the browser to download a file instead of

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Is there a way to ‘force’ the browser to download a file instead of opening that?

<a href="file.txt">Download this file</a>

I’ve tried the method via js using the window.open(“file.txt”, “Download”);

but no success.

Thx.

Updating:

I’ve done a php file as follow;

<html>
<a href='dl.php?bid=3'>

<php>
$sql="select barquivo from bibilioteca where bid=$_GET[bid]";
$row=mysql_fetch_assoc(mysql_query($sql));
header("Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=biblioteca/$row[barquivo]");

And it download a file “biblioteca_” with 0 bytes.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You should do this server-side.

    If you send a

    Content-type: application/octet

    or

    Content-disposition: attachment; filename=file.txt

    header then the user will be prompted to download.

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