Content-Disposition : attachment; filename="f.txt"

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Ashish Bansal

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Dec 28, 2015, 4:11:41 PM12/28/15

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Hi,

Does anyone know what could be the reason for the file not being downloaded even if Content-Disposition header is set correctly ?

Recently I was working on something and found it very weird that whenever you try to use Google Instant(auto-completion suggestions you get while typing on Google search), XHR request is sent and result has Content-Disposition header with the value : attachment; filename="f.txt".

I wonder what could be the reason for it. (Some other header causing that ? I don't think so.)

You can either try it out or check for request details here[0] (Search for "filename" in this file).

[0] http://ix.io/n1L

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Ashish Bansal

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Ashish Bansal

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Dec 29, 2015, 12:33:11 PM12/29/15

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Well I found that Web Browsers just ignores the Content-Disposition header in XHR requests.