Force file to stream instead of download

New to HTML 5. This markup is easier to understand and is supported by all modern browsers, but may not be supported by all content management systems.

If for whatever reason, you cannot add the download attribute in the case that you cannot directly edit the HTML of your web page , you can optionally compress the file using zip, and instruct the user to download the zip file. You can alternatively explain to the user that they should right click on the link and select download.

If you have no other alternatives to force the file to download, you can host it on a file hosting service such as Google Docs. The reason for this is the default MIME type set by Apache, which instructs the browser to display instead of download.

This will change the behavior of the file so it is downloaded instead of displayed in the browser. You can change the file type from PDF to whatever by editing the pdf to match whichever extension is desired. Multiple file types may be specified like so:. Here we have added three extensions, pdf , txt , and doc.

So when this code is added to the root. What exact code did you use? This topic has 12 replies, 7 voices, and was last updated 6 years, 4 months ago by HowardYeomans.

Viewing 13 posts - 1 through 13 of 13 total. January 14, at am How Browsers Work With File Downloads Usually when a user goes to a file URL for example: a download link , the file will show in the browser if the browser supports it. Force File to Download from Your Amazon S3 Account If you are storing your files to your amazon S3 account instead of your server then do the following to force a download on those files.

March 31, at pm Is there any way to accomplish option 3 with files hosted on Amazon S3? The full size audio files for purchase will be stored at S3. Follow up question: Previously, when the audio file loaded in the browser instead of downloading , the URL in the address bar included my S3 Access Key ID — not simply the encrypted link. Is that a security risk? Thanks again. April 1, at pm April 16, at am September 7, at am Hello — Is it possible to force a download to mobile devices?

March 16, at am How have you added the video into Storyline? Could you use it as a web object instead of a video file? If possible, I would like to force Chrome to open the videos instead of just downloading them. Otherwise I'll have to specifically discourage using Chrome. You can check out the difference in this documentation.

I didn't do any of the three options shown in the documentation. I know the thread is quite old. However, the easiest way you can attain this is by doing the following. PS: This will work if you have a single video. In case you have more than one video. Create a Resource menu on Slidemaster and then add the list of videos in that menu.