What if you want to force downloading a file, instead of opening it in the browser? Well, here are some ways to generate a link that downloads the document directly. He loves sharing his knowledge and experiences with the SharePoint community, through his real-world articles! On modern pages it is much much easier than all that. When you Copy Link on modern pages it give you a long string of stuff. Something like this:. It will then produce an expanded url and when I copied the expanded url it produced it was basically a direct download file for the audio.
That worked fine for me. OneDrive Direct Download Link Generator is a tool that will convert the Microsoft OneDrive embedded code into a direct downloadable link so one can download the shared file without LogIn to their Microsoft account. Products 74 Special Topics 42 Video Hub Most Active Hubs Microsoft Teams. Security, Compliance and Identity. Microsoft Edge Insider.
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Video Hub Azure. Microsoft Business. Microsoft Enterprise. Browse All Community Hubs. Is working on all except on Mozilla. This only works for same-origin links, as mentioned on caniuse. If you don't have access to the server, then you can try to proxy it and set the response header manually. Show 2 more comments. DrWaky DrWaky 6 6 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. It's exactly the same as the current top answer though, from Ayush Gupta in If you give a string in the download attribute, it will be used as file name.
I'm using it in userscripts all the time. Correct me if I'm wrong, but download is not a "save-as" dialog box. Karel Petranek Karel Petranek In practice I believe this is widely implemented. This is the best solution, hassle free and works. You can directly download any file type using this method. Content-Encoding: none is useless. Show 1 more comment. Tony Tony 3 3 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. This worked well, since I had a particular document directory for downloads.
I omitted the ForceType, just to let the types stay as-is. I also didn't need the case-insensitive; mine seems to be case-insensitive already. This worked wonderfully, even in OSX Safari, where as other answers including the accepted one, as one commenter pointed out there are limited to certain browsers which support the given HTML feature.
This one seems more ideal to me since it worked across the board, though it does require higher-level access to the server configuration files. You could put that right in your apache.
How would a Windows-hosted web site implement this, since they can't read htaccess files? User User 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges.
Turns out the file needs to be local in order for it to work. My href was a url to cloud storage. Ashay Ashay 4 4 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. This appears to be a nice way to serve up every single file on your server to anyone who's paying attention. Try adding this line to your. Sharad Gautam Sharad Gautam 89 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. I'd be interested to know why this has been downvoted - it's one of the simplest methods and works: css-tricks.
People try to modify the core functionality of a server on free hosting sites and then downvote because they can't get it to work. Every other solution will have caveats because it is a "hack" to replace this. I'm downvoting it because it's the wrong solution to the problem. It's a bad idea to mess with types of resources. NathanHornby - I didn't downvote it, but this would not work for any Windows hosted site, since they don't use. I didn't downvote, but this solution blindly affects ALL files of that suffix.
It's indiscriminate and therefore won't be appropriate in all cases. I just used this, but I don't know if it works across all browsers. That is suggested, and with more background information, in an earlier answer. Bungle Mr. Bungle 1, 16 16 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges. Terrible usability. Many end users wouldn't know what to do with a zip file.
Sometimes simple solutioans are the best solutions! Not a good solution. I have exactly that problem with Firefox and a ZIP file.
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