Im fixing a chrome extension that i've been running for awhile now and the download feature that had worked for awhile is broken and i've had trouble getting it to work again. In one of my extension "options" pages (the URL starts with chrome-extension://...) I used to be able to download a file using an a HTML tag and I could control the name of the file being downloaded. Looked something like this-
<a href="https://www.another_domain.com/..." download="custom name">Download</a>
My extension has full permissions to "another_domain.com" and I actually have tested it with just giving the extension full permissions to all domains. My permissions from the manifest file (extracted other permissions that aren't relevant)-
"permissions": ["*://*/*"]
A user used to be able to simply click the link and download the file, which would be named according to the download attribute. Now, the file still downloads but is named "download" by the server and isn't of much use to the user. I read from this source that cross-domain downloads are allowed in Chrome but I cannot change the name. I'm wondering if this has always been the case or if this is a recent change. If it's a recent change, then any suggestions on work-arounds are appreciated.
