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Is it possible to force the browser to download .txt (or any other) instead of viewing it?

Aug 25th, 2000 09:34
Martin Honnen, mul mad,

Not with client side JavaScript. You need to use server side methods to 
send the file with a context type which the browser can't display but 
offers for download. 
  application/x-octet-stream
is I think often used for that. Note that there are reports that IE 
tends to ignore the content types and displays nevertheless.