I am using joomla 2.5 with ROXBOX plugin and using this showing the PDF's in lightbox. I am facing problem when user configured Firefox auto download PDF files.
When Firefox configured as save PDF instead of open it in browser the light box stays blank and file started download. As we can not have control on browser, is there any way show any message when Firefox auto download for PDF is enabled?
Please Help!!
I assume you want the PDF to display in the browser, rather than forcing a download. If that is the case, try setting the Content-Disposition header with a value of inline. and 'Content-type to application/pdf.
header('Content-type: application/pdf');
header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename="the.pdf"');
You can use PHP to set header as shown above.
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I have problem with mozilla firefox in this case. I am generating file on the fly and then trying to download the file and then delete it from the server. Problem is, Firefox says the file doesnt exists, even though I can see it is generated on the server. Chrome and Opera works perfectly.
firefox version: 58.0.2
Any ides what has to be tuned for firefox ?
header('location: /path/'.$name.'.pptx');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' .basename($name).'.pptx"');
ob_start();
flush();
sleep(5);
unlink($name.'.pptx');
First of all, just for sanity, please use Location instead of location.
Also, as per my understanding, once you send the Location header, the browser does a redirect to the specified URL. When the browser has redirected to a different page, I feel all the headers post Location shall be rendered useless. The URL from which you are downloading should send the Content-Disposition header. Also, I would suggest adding the headers Content-Type and Content-Length on the download URL.
This used to work on my old hosting service. I just migrated to websynthesis and now when I download pdf files through browser, the html code for the download page is added to the pdf. The pdf file generated is ok when I download it directly, but not when downloaded through a browser. I am using the standard download script:
session_start();
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=$_SESSION[myfile.pdf]");
header("Content-type: application/pdf");
readfile($_SESSION[download-file.pdf]);
I have tried using many additional or alternate header statements with no success. Is there some additional header info I need to add?
Also filed support ticket with websynthesis
i am trying to make a download link in html that is given like this for a PDF Book
Download
but problem is that when download link is clicked it opens online version of pdf , does not offer download , i did google and found same way to add download link , any one can guide me with it please whats wrong here
As of late 2018, clicking the link won’t trigger a download if the resource to be downloaded wasn’t served from the same origin or same server. Apparently, this is restriction is a security measure.
You can download the content in browser and make it downloadable, you can check the below url
https://medium.com/charisol-community/downloading-resources-in-html5-a-download-may-not-work-as-expected-bf63546e2baa
you can try this
Download
HTML5 defines the download attribute, which forces the browser to prompt the user a download dialog for the resource instead of navigate to it.
Here is the support across the different browsers: http://caniuse.com/#feat=download.
Its not the problem with your script, instead its your browser that has pdf plug-in and displays you the content file directly.You can just save the page (Press CTRL+S) and it would be saved as .PDF file.
Thanks.
The HTML5 download attribute is only supported by Chrome and firefox... Try this :
Download
Download.php
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=http://www.mydomain.org/pdf/book.pdf");
header("Content-type: application/pdf:");
readfile("http://www.mydomain.org/pdf/book.pdf");
if you want to download the pdf in next tab with current website intact then use following code:
Download
My Firefox extension not loading on browser.
I uploaded it my server but when i clicking that link , it's not loading my browser. I have been seen just content codes.
How can i change content type as application/x-xpinstall ?
http://www.alisverisbook.com/zamantunelikaldirma/install.php?type=firefox
images:
Output a Content-type header in "install.php" prior to reading the file contents to the browser.
header("Content-type: application/x-xpinstall");
I need some code to download a pdf file.
what i mean is normaly when we give
like this href="./downloads/Intake Sheet rev 4-1-10.pdf"
that will open the pdf in the same window, i dont want this , i need that to be downloaded , means need the download window to appear.
i'm using php to develop my website.
Please give me some idea.
Thanks
This behaviour is usually controlled by user itself, but you can build a 'PHP gateway' to force the downloading of the PDF:
Download
And in download.php:
header('Content-type: application/pdf');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="downloaded.pdf"');
readfile($_GET['file']);
That should do it but note that this example contains an HUGE security flaw – you MUST check and sanitize the file parameter somehow to prevent users from downloading every file from your server but this should give you the general idea on how to accomplish forced downloads.