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Status: Archived
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Closed: Aug 21
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Feature



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Make Content-Disposition: attachment more friendly

Project Member Reported by nicoya@google.com, May 22 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Navigate to a page which contains a link to a Content-Disposition: Attachment resource
2. Attempt to view but not download the resource

What is the expected behavior?
Able to just view the content without creating a file in my downloads directory

What went wrong?
Resource is downloaded into a file in my downloads directory, and I need to do a multi-step process to open the file in the browser again, then delete the file from my downloads directory when I'm done with it.

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 58.0.3029.110  Channel: stable
OS Version: gLinux
Flash Version: 

In a perfect world, web content creators wouldn't make these resources force-download by marking them Content-Disposition: Attachment. Sadly we do not live in a perfect world.

I think my ideal would be that the file would start downloading in the download bar, but go to a managed space instead of immediately to my downloads folder, and from there I could choose to view the file or delete it or save it to the downloads folder or whatever.

Alternately providing a quick link to be able to delete/move-to-trash the file from the download bar would make the experience less frustrating than having to go through the file browser to find and delete the file.
 

Comment 1 by hdodda@chromium.org, May 24 2017

Labels: -Type-Bug Type-Feature
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
This looks more like a feature request and hence marking it as untra=iaged for further inputs on this.

Thanks!
Project Member

Comment 2 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Jul 14 2017

Labels: Hotlist-Google
Status: Archived (was: Untriaged)
Archiving old bugs that haven't been actively assigned in over a year.

If you feel this issue should still be addressed, feel free to reopen it or to file a new issue. Thanks!
Archiving old bugs that haven't been actively assigned in over a year.

If you feel this issue should still be addressed, feel free to reopen it or to file a new issue. Thanks!

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