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Force download a picture from Google Chrome without opening new tab

Answer 1

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Ideally, you should send http header in order to prompt the picture to be downloaded like

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="downloaded.jpg"

..so you should point your link to a PHP script (or whatever), which sends a picture with proper headers.

lashtal 2010-09-02 23:35:11

As I mentioned, I've got the file to download ok. What I'm trying to do is get it to download without having to open a new browser window.

Brian 2010-09-02 23:46:32

Using the Content-Disposition HTTP header is going to be the only way. You could write a PHP script whose sole purpose is to write the header and then print the contents of the image file. Either that, or just direct the user to right-click and save the image manually.

Christopher Parker 2010-09-03 00:27:38

I wonder if you could do something fancy with httpd.conf (or possibly even .htaccess) to force the inclusion of this header for all image files in a directory or even just one specific image file...

Christopher Parker 2010-09-03 00:32:02

As I've stated, this is not my problem. I've already done this. What I want is to be able to download the photo using a <button> tag without having to open another window. I've resolved it by just using a <a> link for now (see my answer), but unfortunately this is not how the UI was designed.

Brian 2010-09-04 01:04:29

Answer 2

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Perhaps this is a bug in Chrome (FF too)? I just tried it with a link and it works fine.

<a href="mypicture">Download</a>

Brian 2010-09-03 00:01:42

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