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Table of Contents. Anusha Pai. Comments This information is outdated in and should be deleted or updated. Among the many useful things it can do is its ability to open a PDF file.

It might seem trivial but there was once a time when good PDF readers were hard to come by. In Chrome, when you click on a link to a PDF file, it loads in the browser and you can read it. Open Chrome and click the more options button at the top right. How to do it depends on the server side language in question.

NET: Response. BalusC BalusC 1. For IIS: Put all files you want to force to download in their own folder. Add a new header with the following info: Name: content-disposition Value: attachment All files in that folder, when accessed, should prompt the save as dialog box for the appropriate browser.

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