Node express content-order
I want to force the browser to download a file from external storage given the url. I implemented this express action after closing the controller:
var download = function(req, res) {
request(req.body.url).on('response', function(response) {
res.set({
'Content-Disposition': 'attachment; filename=' + req.body.filename,
'Content-Type': response.headers['content-type']
});
})
.pipe(res);
};
I don't know why the browser always gets "inline" instead of "attachment", avoiding the file download.
In this case I am using express and request, the server is hosted on Heroku and the server that contains the files is FilePicker.
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I'm looking around for the same thing. The express documentation shows a very simple helper method right out of the box:
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
app.get('/download', function(req, res) {
res.download('/path/to/your_file.pdf');
});
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