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jquery: how to force a pdf download automatically?

Afternoon folks,

I have a pdf file which the user can download. I want this to be done from Javascript rather than an <a> or similar.

So I have this code, but it opens in a new window/tab.

  window.open(url,'Download');

How can I tell the browser to show a download dialog box, instead of displaying the PDF inline?

Answer 1

Your server has to serve up the document with a “Content-disposition” header:

Content-disposition: attachment; filename="yourfile.pdf";

You can’t make that happen from JavaScript.