Force browser to download

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I'm using a .htaccess file to make links to JPEGs download instead of opening in the browser window. This is what I'm using:

    AddType application/octet-stream .jpg

It's working fine in Safari and Firefox on Mac OSX but not on IE 8 on Windows. Is there any way around this apart from writing a header in PHP which I would rather not do?

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 13 '11 at 14:07

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I think Internet Explorer does also expect Content-Disposition: attachment for downloads. If you have mod_headers available, you can do this:

<FilesMatch "\.jpg$">
    Header set Content-Disposition attachment
    Header set Content-Type application/octet-stream
</FilesMatch>

answered Jun 13 '11 at 14:07

Gumbo

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+1 elegant solution, anyway the Content-disposition header is not an IE prerogative... am I wrong? – Paolo Stefan Jun 14 '11 at 13:40

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 13 '11 at 14:07

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I found some tutorials which use another method that should work for you:

answered Jun 13 '11 at 14:07

Lukas Knuth

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 13 '11 at 14:08

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Add header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=..."); in PHP

answered Jun 13 '11 at 14:08

Chojny

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Force browser to download

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