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Luise Ribeiro Bommel
Luise Ribeiro Bommel

Reputation: 21

Remove the auto download of a URL that points to a google bucket

I have files stored on google cloud storage. Google provides me a URL to access this files, but when I access this URL the file is auto downloaded. I wish to know if it is possible to remove or don't allow this auto download when we access the file URL. ;)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 746

Answers (1)

Jofre
Jofre

Reputation: 3898

The download feature is handled by the client.

Calling the URL for an object stored in a bucket will return the object in the body of the HTTP request, and the client will choose what to do with this data.

If you use a web browser, the choice of downloading or not a file is usually given by the header Content-Type. In general, there are some MIME types that will be displayed on the browser itself (according to Chrome help, videos, images, PDFs and web pages will be displayed directly on the browser), while others will download directly.

To modify the MIME type of the files stored in a bucket, you must change it's metadata, so the browser will behave in the way you want.

Upvotes: 1

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