How Can I Force A "save As" Option When The User Clicks A Link

I have a link to a PDF on my web page and I want to know if it's possible to always ask the user if they want to download the PDF or open it in a new window. Is this possible? I re

Solution 1:

It can be done, but not in clientside javascript. If you have a server side script that feeds the file, it can send a Content-Disposition: attachment header along with the response. This will trigger a save as dialog in the browser.

If they are static files, you can also change the configuration of your server. For Apache use the FilesMatch directive. There's a nice example for PDF files here:

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