Issue 377317 in chromium: <a> download attribute no longer working

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Labels: Cr-Content Pri-2 Via-Wizard Type-Bug OS-Linux

New issue 377317 by p...@lucidchart.com: <a> download attribute no longer
working
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=377317

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like
Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.114 Safari/537.36

Example URL:
http://jsfiddle.net/2PCU2/

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Create a link element with a download attribute
of "my-downloaded-file.html".
2. Click on the link.

What is the expected behavior?
A file should download with the name "my-downloaded-file.html".

What went wrong?
A file downloads with the name "download.html".

Does it occur on multiple sites: Yes

Is it a problem with a plugin? No

Did this work before? Yes 34

Does this work in other browsers? Yes

Chrome version: 35.0.1916.114 Channel: stable
OS Version:
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 13.0 r0

Works in Firefox 29.
See also https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a

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Comment #1 on issue 377317 by p...@lucidchart.com: <a> download attribute

no longer working
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=377317

Related Stack Overflow post:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23860000/cannot-specify-name-of-the-download-file-using-javascript

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Comment #2 on issue 377317 by joeytj...@gmail.com: <a> download attribute

no longer working
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=377317

This is not entirely correct. Only data-URIs don't work anymore. Simple
http:// links still do work: http://jsfiddle.net/Cf48L/

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #3 on issue 377317 by p...@lucidchart.com: <a> download attribute

no longer working
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=377317

The posted example actually does not work in FF (cross-origin concerns).
Updated example: http://jsfiddle.net/2PCU2/1/

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #4 on issue 377317 by guilla...@teleportd.com: <a> download

attribute no longer working
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=377317

As stated ion SO, this seems to only fail with data URIs cf.
http://jsfiddle.net/Cf48L/

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Comment #5 on issue 377317 by joeytj...@gmail.com: <a> download attribute

no longer working
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=377317

Well it also seems to fail when using non-relative urls (so it's probably a
cross-domain thing)

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Comment #6 on issue 377317 by p...@lucidchart.com: <a> download attribute

no longer working
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=377317

http://jsfiddle.net/Cf48L/ fails for me as well. I see download.png and
download.html.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #7 on issue 377317 by joeytj...@gmail.com: <a> download attribute

no longer working
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=377317

http://jsfiddle.net/Cf48L/1/ relative URLs do still work. Non-relative URLs
don't though.

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Updates:
Status: Duplicate
Mergedinto: 376197

Comment #8 on issue 377317 by tk...@chromium.org: <a> download attribute no
longer working
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=377317

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Comment #9 on issue 377317 by dhirendr...@gmail.com: <a> download attribute

no longer working
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=377317

I have Tried with all 3 browser , it's not working for me it all . not able
to download changed file name