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I am getting server side URL to my HTML,on click of that URL PDF file is opening in browser itself,Since the PDF is larger Size I want to force the user to download it(saveas pop up) Please help me

user1539793
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You don't need javascript to do this. In a modern browser you can simply do <a href="somepathto.pdf" download="filename">

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Community
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Kristian
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You can use the HTML5 attribute download :

<a href="link" download="filename"/>

You can also make a PHP page that will read the PDF and force the download, by using these functions :

header('Content-Type: application/pdf');
header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename=filename.pdf');
exit(readfile(yourPDF));

(PHP is useful if you want to prevent the users to delete the download attribute, but it may be too much)

FLX
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Use the download attribute:

<a download="file.pdf">Link</a>

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#attr-hyperlink-download

David Hellsing
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try this 

> <FilesMatch "\.(?i:pdf)$">   ForceType application/octet-stream  
> Header set Content-Disposition attachment </FilesMatch>
Abomusab Revo
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    Interesting answer ! But you should specify that it must be put in htaccess. Also, he's just talking about one PDF so I don't think that this is the best way – FLX Nov 05 '14 at 16:22