This is an oldie but a goody. In web development there comes a time when you need to force a download when someone clicks on a link, without telling them to “right click save as…” In the past this was always a problem. Now thanks to Google, you can type in keywords and find a nice, lovely blog post like this one and figure it out. And of course you’re not going to tell anyone because you want to look like a Rock Star. So you’re going to say “ain’t nothing but a thang.”
And before you do that, here’s how you’re going to save the day and prompt a “Save As” to the user so he/she can download his/her file:
1 2 | # Put all your extensions after the word stream AddType application/octet-stream .doc .mov .avi .pdf .xls .mp4 .xlsx .docm |
