How to access and download a file from a server using HTML 5

HTML5 supports the download attribute: http://webreflection.blogspot.com/2011/08/html5-how-to-create-downloads-on-fly.html Example: Clicking on this will allow the browser to handle the download (instead of opening the file using whatever application is associated with the mimetype), including a progress bar. Note: You really want to be careful not to deviate from normal user expectation by trying to create your own … Read more

How to make PDF file downloadable in HTML link?

This is a common issue but few people know there’s a simple HTML 5 solution: Where newfilename is the suggested filename for the user to save the file. Or it will default to the filename on the serverside if you leave it empty, like this: Compatibility: I tested this on Firefox 21 and Iron, both worked fine. … Read more

Download a file by jQuery.Ajax

2019 modern browsers update This is the approach I’d now recommend with a few caveats: A relatively modern browser is required If the file is expected to be very large you should likely do something similar to the original approach (iframe and cookie) because some of the below operations could likely consume system memory at least as … Read more

Is there a Public FTP server to test upload and download?

Closed. This question does not meet Stack Overflow guidelines. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Stack Overflow. Closed 3 years ago. What I want to do is measure broadband speed using c#. To do this, I use NetworkInterface.BytesReceived and BytesSent to get the … Read more

Download Returned Zip file from URL

Most people recommend using requests if it is available, and the requests documentation recommends this for downloading and saving raw data from a url: Since the answer asks about downloading and saving the zip file, I haven’t gone into details regarding reading the zip file. See one of the many answers below for possibilities. If … Read more