CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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swan
swan

Reputation: 2599

How do you serve a page as html while prompting with a download dialog

I have a link which launches a new html page in a new tab with simple jquery, like _target=blank, no issue.

Expected:

Current unexpected behavior:

Shortly, I want to keep the page open, while prompting a Save as dialog.

Using Content-Disposition attachment seems to have no chance to keep the page open. I didn't do any exit(); either, but the page is never showed, except for the dialog.

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 287

Answers (4)

Basemm
Basemm

Reputation: 1253

send refresh headers

header("Refresh: 5; url=http://www.example.com?download=1");

instead of the need to modify your template to add meta tags

Upvotes: 0

kitti
kitti

Reputation: 14834

Try pulling your page initially as a normal page, and use a meta refresh to redirect to the same url with a parameter telling your PHP to serve the page again as a download.

Example:

<?php
$isDownload = isset( $_GET['download'] );
if( $isDownload ) {
    header( 'Content-disposition: attachment' );
}
?>
<html>
    <head>
        <?php if( !$isDownload ) { ?>
        <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;<?=$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']?>?download" />
        <?php } ?>
...

Upvotes: 4

mmcnickle
mmcnickle

Reputation: 1607

Insert a meta refresh tag into the page that you are currently serving in the popup. This meta refresh should point to the file you want to be downloaded:

popup.php:

<head>
    ...
    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;URL='http://www.example.com/downloads/file.ext'" />    
    ...
</head>

This will show popup.php in the new window, and after 10 seconds a save dialog will show prompting the user to download the file file.ext

Upvotes: 1

tycho martins
tycho martins

Reputation: 7

not sure if this is a good answer or not.. but perhaps.. open the page that displays the save as dialog box & try some document.location.href = "abspathtofile"; in js.. though i'm not sure if this is what you're looking for..

Upvotes: 1

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