Html - Open a link to a file in browser instead of download

Question

This might be a basic question but I have a link to a file

<a href = "http://sitename.com/path/to/file.jpg">File Name</a>

I want to leave it a link, but when I click it the image just downloads. I would like for it to open in the browser instead of downloading. How can I do this? I feel like this should be easy, but for some reason I can't find the solution.

please show your complete code, the code above is not complete — Qiqo, Jul 05 '17 at 01:26
Is it an anchor link? Is it coming from the server? What is it? — cs95, Jul 05 '17 at 01:28
Look here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16653780/getting-a-file-to-download-instead-of-opening-the-browser?rq=1 — Qiqo, Jul 05 '17 at 01:30

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 05 '17 at 01:26

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Your webserver isn't sending the right headers.

If you curl -I http://sitename.com/path/to/file.jpg you should see a header Content-Type.

The correct answer is: Content-Type: image/jpeg

More specific answers are going to depend upon what webserver you're using.

answered Jul 05 '17 at 01:26

Corey Quinn

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I'm using Apache. The Content type is text/html. Strange. – Benjamin Thvedt Jul 05 '17 at 01:37
Anything strange in your config? mod_headers, mod_mime, anything of the sort? – Corey Quinn Jul 05 '17 at 01:51
Not that I'm aware of. Is there a way to set the content-type header for certain files? I'm trying to look up how to do it – Benjamin Thvedt Jul 05 '17 at 01:52

Html - Open a link to a file in browser instead of download

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