http download file name

Question

May i know how to assign a file-name to a a-href file download.

<a href="http://localhost:8080/couch/getFile?dbName=xxx&file=test.xml">get-file</a>

On right-clicking and Save as: A services running on the background will return test.xml contents and the user can save it locally. But here everytime user needs to type a filename for saving. Instead i'm thinking to pull the test.xml. May i know how to tell the browser to use "test.xml" as a download file name?

Will setting headers on HTTP response would work? if so may i know how we can do that?

Answer 1

You need to append the HTTP response header "Content-Disposition"

Response.AppendHeader("content-disposition", "attachment; filename="" + fileName +""");