Html Download Movie Download Link

I want a user to be able to hit a button which triggers a .mov file to download. Linking to the file its self just causes the movie to play in a new page. I have tried this:

Solution 1:

You can try the html5 download attribute.

<ahref='assets/files/mymovie.mov'download>

Solution 2:

In addition to Musa's answer:

Try setting the Content-Disposition header. You will need to set this up either in your server configuration, or let a executable script on your server do this (such as php):

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="mymovie.mov"

Solution 3:

if you're using a server side page to serve up content, by chance, then you can easily set the header of that page Content-Disposition: attachment and/or Content-Type:binary so that it kicks off a download.

otherwise, you can use download attribute in your <a> tag, which will only work in some browsers.

lastly, if you're feeling really heroic, you can go hack on your mime-types settings config file in your web server, in which you'd set the content disposition there.

Share