my function open a internet page in pop-up browser before to download a file. But after I change to SL4 and out-of-browser, seems the pop-up is no longer working
System.Windows.Browser.HtmlPage.PopupWindow(_uri, "Report", null);
and then I also tried HttpWebRequest and WebBrowser. Seems they both won't ask the user to download the file or not, but just stay silence.
Finally, I sloved this by checking when OOB mode, use Shell command for the http URL, then a download box will prompt directly.
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I'm trying to write MVC endpoint that will optionally set the content-disposition to inline or attachment in order to either display the file (a pdf) inside a new browser tab or else to download it. The UI allows the user to select how they'd like to open the file (not my design - can't change that aspect of it).
Note that this works in Chrome/Edge just as expected.
In Firefox, the application settings for PDF appear to trump the content-disposition. Is there a reliable way to get Firefox to respect the content-disposition? Preferably a way that will work w/ a vanilla installation of the browser such that end-users don't need to make any modifications on their end for it to work.
Here's the code I'm using to setup my response (class is derived from ApiController):
var response = Request.CreateResponse(System.Net.HttpStatusCode.OK);
response.Content = new PushStreamContent((stream, content, context) =>
{
dispatcher.Dispatch(request, stream);
}, new MediaTypeHeaderValue(MediaTypeNames.Application.Pdf));
response.Content.Headers.ContentDisposition = new ContentDispositionHeaderValue(contentDisposition)
{
FileName = $"{auto_generated_fileName}.pdf",
};
response.Headers.CacheControl = new CacheControlHeaderValue()
{
NoCache = true,
NoStore = true
};
return response;
We have noticed this issue in our webapp as well. The webapp has a download button that lets the user download a PDF file. Firefox shows the PDF file in the current tab, which effectively kills the webapp.
After a bit of research, this appears to be an intentional feature, see the release notes for Firefox 98:
When you set an application to open files of a specific type in your Firefox preference settings, those files will open automatically, even files served by the website with "content-disposition: attachment". The same applies to PDF files that are set to open in Firefox by default. This is a fix to bug 453455.
Personally, while I can understand some users may want this for web pages that don't behave well, this is an issue for well-behaved web apps.
Setting the download attribute on the anchor does not appear to work either, Firefox still shows the file inline (tested with Firefox 99.0)
So as far as I am aware, you cannot force the browser to download the file if the browser does not allow it. Other web apps such as OwnCloud or Google Drive are having the same issue -- if you click right on a PDF file in Google Drive and then click on Dowload, Firefox still open the PDF file inline, whereas Chrome downloads it.
For now, it seems the best you can do is to open file in a new tab, to prevent the webapp or web page from being replaced by the downloaded file (which is also what Google Drive seems to be doing). You can open the download in a new tab or window e.g. via the target attribute on an <a> links or via the formtarget atttribute on a <button> element.
I found #blutorange's answer after trying to find a solution to the same problem as OP. However, just before I got here, I stumbled across this answer from back in 2013 - https://stackoverflow.com/a/16515146 which suggests to set the Content-Type header to application/octet-stream, instead of application/pdf.
I tried that solution and what do you know - it works! The PDF opens in a new tab in Firefox automatically, but at least it doesn't replace the tab of my application, so yay! Chrome doesn't seem to mind it either and my PDF viewer on my computer also recognizes the files as PDFs.
Now, this might not be the most "correct" fix to the issue we're facing, but it's an alternative to forcing open a new tab.
when i am trying to view files from my TFS document library it's download the file instead of opening it automatic with excel OR word that are already installed on my pc, does someone know how to fix it?
i am using office365 and TFS2015 as you can see at the screenshot that attached this is how it's look like in PC that working fine.
This kind of issue may related to your IE security setting, try to add the related sharepoint site in trust site and try again:
Close your browser (if you don't and you have your SharePoint site up you'll get a bunch of script errors because of the change to access
levels).
Go to your Control Panel
Open Internet Properties
Select the Security tab.
Select Trusted Sites
Click Sites, and add the URL for your SharePoint site.
More details please refer this similar issue: "Some files can harm your computer" dialog when I open a file from the document library
If the warning dialog is disappear, but when you open file still download. Then that behavior maybe defined by your browser. Try some other browser such as IE/Chrome/FireFox. Double check the integration/link of your browser and Word,Excel.
I need to authenticate to a website.
After successful authentication - a form is shown, where a few details are filled.
After submitting the form, the page gives an impression that something is loading:
After a non-fixed delay, a download pop up is shown:
Sadly, assuming if I try to download from URL, I cannot overcome the authentication part. The web browser client is authenticated, not the VBA client.
My simple question is:
How to detect, whether this download pop up has appeared or not in IE9+?
A few things I have tried:
URLDownloadToFile is of no use, since the download link for the file is not fixed and appears after authentication
Siddharth's answer, does not addresses IE 9 download dialogue box, rather works for IE 8 dialogue box
I believe that after successfully detecting this pop up, I can download the file to local disk simply using SendKeys - correct me if needed.
Side question: how to download the file to local disk after detection is successful?
I need, for testing purpose, to disable download prompting bar in IE9 (that asks for opening or saving the file), otherwise I cannot test a feature of my app that lets to download a file.
There are download managers that allow to do it, I am wondering where I may put my hands (which Window's registry) in order to remove this download prompting bar.
You can try to switch to new window and close it or execute following code.
driver.switchTo().alert().dismiss();
You don't say which language you are using, but I was able to do this using the following Ruby code.
Note that it does not touch the registry, as asked in your question, but uses the keyboard to interact with the IE9 download bar. It does not disable the download bar altogether, but effectively does the same thing by getting IE to save the file once a download has been invoked.
Selenium can't see the IE9 download bar, so you can't interact with it using Selenium.
require 'win32ole'
#assuming download has started, and IE9 download window is now visible
if $browser = "IE" then
wsh = WIN32OLE.new('Wscript.Shell')
wsh.AppActivate('My webpage - Windows Internet Explorer')
sleep 1
wsh.SendKeys('%s;') # $browser.send_keys #doesn't work - because IE download window is not on the web page.
end
I am working on a sample BB application for downloading task.
I have internet connection setting in my app. Now my task "on click of a button, i want to download a PDF file in my device as a normal file download from a link"
I have searched alot regarding this query but didn't get anything.
As the code very long to provide here, please take a look at this url and invoke the blackberry browser with your pdf url.