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The Content-Disposition response header field is used in HTTP web responses to convey additional information about how to process a response payload. It can also be used to attach additional metadata such as a filename to the response.

The Content-Disposition response header field is used in HTTP web responses to convey additional information about how to process a response payload. It can also be used to attach additional metadata such as a filename to the response. The full definition of the content-disposition header is outlined in RFC 6266.

The content-disposition header is added to a HTTP response when further descriptive information is desired to aid the receiver in interpreting the payload. Usage follows the following grammar:

content-disposition = "Content-Disposition" ":" disposition-type *( ";" disposition-parm )

disposition-type = "inline" | "attachment" | disp-ext-type ; case-insensitive disp-ext-type = token

disposition-parm = filename-parm | disp-ext-parm

filename-parm = "filename" "=" value | "filename*" "=" ext-value

disp-ext-parm = token "=" value | ext-token "=" ext-value ext-token =

Questions related to this tag should be concerned with describing the payload of a HTTP Response. An example question may be - "Save a PDF that's been streamed to the browser"

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Force to open "Save As..." popup open at text link click for PDF in HTML

I have some big size PDF catalogs at my website, and I need to link these as download. When I googled, I found such a thing noted below. It should open the "Save As..." popup at link click...
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How to set response filename without forcing "save as" dialog

I am returning a stream in some response setting the appropriate content-type header. The behavior I'm looking for is this: If the browser is able to render content of the given content type then it should display it in the browser window. If the…
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Uses of content-disposition in an HTTP response header

I have found the following asp.net code to be very useful when serving files from a database: Response.AppendHeader("content-disposition", "attachment; filename=" + fileName); This lets the user save the file to their computer and then decide how…
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How to get file name from content-disposition

I downloaded a file as response of ajax. How to get the file name and file type from content-disposition and display thumbnail for it. I got many search results but couldn't find right way. $(".download_btn").click(function () { var uiid =…
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How to Use Content-disposition for force a file to download to the hard drive?

I want to force the browser to download a pdf file. I am using the following code : Click here to Download quotation It makes the browser open the pdf in a new window, but I want it to download to the…
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How to set 'Content-Disposition' and 'Filename' when using FileSystemResource to force a file download file?

What is the most appropriate, and standard, way to set the Content-Disposition=attachment and filename=xyz.zip using Spring 3 FileSystemResource? The action looks like : @ResponseBody @RequestMapping(value = "/action/{abcd}/{efgh}", method =…
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Special Characters in Content-Disposition filename

My question is a duplicate of How to encode the filename parameter of Content-Disposition header in HTTP? But since that question was asked a long time ago and there is still no satisfying answer (in my opinion), I would like to ask again. I develop…
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Axios expose response headers: Content-Disposition

I was able to set request headers to expose Content-Disposition by adding: "Access-Control-Expose-Headers": "Content-Disposition" I can see the response but the response object does not include Content-Disposition. Is there any way i can access…
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Download textarea contents as a file using only Javascript (no server-side)

I am being asked to make a "download" button that downloads the contents of a textarea on the same page as a file, with the browser's "Save As..." dialog showing up. Copy/paste would do the job just fine, but it is a "requirement". Right now, I am…
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how to determine the filename of content downloaded with HTTP in Python?

I download a file using the get function of Python requests library. For storing the file, I'd like to determine the filename the way a web browser would for its 'save' or 'save as ...' dialog. Easy, right? I can just get it from the…
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Get Content-Disposition parameters

How do I get Content-Disposition parameters I returned from WebAPI controller using WebClient? WebApi Controller [Route("api/mycontroller/GetFile/{fileId}")] public HttpResponseMessage GetFile(int fileId) { try { …
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Content-Disposition:attachment not triggering download dialog

I've encountered some unexpected behavior when trying to create a file download functionality on my NodeJS server. I have a REST (express) API that calls for some export data function, which creates a CSV file on the server and uses…
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PDF Handler : content-disposition filename

I am outputting a PDF file in a Web browser (IE8) HttpContext.Response.writefile(fileName) and it works great. When I try to save the file, it will give me the name of the ashx handler as a default. I would like to actually pass the real name. I…
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How to implement Content-Disposition: attachment?

I am trying to make it so that mp3's on my site are downloaded by left clicking instead of having to right click and save as, So in order to do that, I have to set the Content-Disposition: attachment. This is my first website so I am new to how to…
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S3 Presigned URL Multiple Content Disposition Headers

I have an S3 bucket having PDF files as objects and all of them are private. I create an S3 Presigned URL programmatically to get the object. It works fine. Now, I want it to be previewable as a PDF. Every object already has a Content-Type header…
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