Javascript based solutions such as Google Analytics are very popular, but will not show file downloads by default. You’ll probably want to track file downloads along with other metrics from your web site. There’s more information about this problem and other possible causes in a post on Eric Lawrence’s IEInternals blog.
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It interprets these flags as meaning that the content should never be saved to the disk when HTTPS is being used and causes the file download dialog to hang at 0% for several minutes: This works in Firefox, but watch out for Internet Explorer. It’s tempting to use the no-store and no-cache directives with the Cache-Control response header to prevent any caching of a file that is often updated: Tip #3: Don’t break HTTPS downloads in IE You can do this by setting Expires to -1 or any date in the past. If the file is subject to frequent changes, you may want to expire it immediately so that a fresh copy is always downloaded. This allows future downloads of the file to be delivered from the local browser cache or an intermediate proxy. You can see here in HttpWatch we have set up a far futures Expires value and set Cache-Control to public : Our example download of the HTTP spec (RFC2616) could be cached forever because it is not expected to change.
Usually content needs to expire immediately or be cached forever. Like any other content, it’s worth setting up HTTP caching to maximize the speed of download and minimize your bandwidth costs. For example, here’s the setting in IIS:įor dynamically generated content you would need to add this header in the page’s server side code.Īfter adding the header, the browser will always prompt the user to download the file: This can be handy if you’re generating the content in something like getfile.aspx but you want to supply a more meaningful file name to the user.įor static content you can manually configure the additional header in your web server. The header also allows you to control the default file name.
You can force the use of the file download dialog by adding the following response header:Ĭontent-Disposition: attachment filename= For example, if you link to a plain text file the browser just opens it and doesn’t prompt to save the download: The trouble is that the browser behaves differently if the file is something that it can display itself. Batch to delete folder Delete the folder using the command line. Batch to delete file automatically Delete the file using the command line. Also READ: Batch to delete file older than Delete files older than 7 days using batch and script.
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A dialog is displayed allowing the user to save the file locally: How to create a batch script to zip file. It works well for binary files like setup programs and ZIP archives that the browser doesn’t know how to display.
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