Force download through markup or JS
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Lets assume I have a file on a CDN (Cloud Files from Rackspace) and a static html page with a link to that file. Is there any way I can force download this file (to prevent it from opening in the browser -- for mp3s for example)?
We could make our server read the file and set the corresponding header to:
header("Content-Type: application/force-download")
but we have about 5 million downloads per month so we would rather let the CDN take care of that.
Any ideas?
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