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Asked: 2026-05-27T20:53:35+00:00

wget http://www.example.com/file.doc downloads that file to the local disk. What is the equivalent of

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“wget http://www.example.com/file.doc” downloads that file to the local disk.

What is the equivalent of the above in javascript? for example, consider the following html snippet.

<html>
<head>
   <script language="JavaScript">
      function download_file() {
         var url = "http://www.example.com/file.doc"
         //
         // Question: 
         //
         // what should be done here to download 
         // the file in the url?
         //
      }
   </script>
</head>
<body>
   <input type="button" value="Download" onclick="download_file()">
</body>
</html>

Please suggest a solution that is compliant with all the browsers.

Sangeeth.

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  1. Editorial Team

    After a exploring more than a month, with a help of my friend, we were able to find out the following.

    The website where the file is hosted is not allowing us to download the file using window.location = url; or window.open(url);

    Finally we had to use the data-downloadurl support from HTML5 as follows 

    <a href="<url-goes-here>" data-downloadurl="audio/mpeg:<filename-goes-here>:<url-goes-here>" download="<filename-goes-here>">Click here to download the file</a>

    We embed this html into the host html and when clicked on the link, it triggers the download.

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