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I've just setup an FTP server which will contain pdf files. Now I want to email people the link to download a pdf file. When they click on the link it opens IE and then opens the Acrobat Reader plugin in IE. But this is not what I want , I want it to prompt them to save the file , how will I do this? (BTW they use Outlook)
Distribution: Solaris 11.4, Oracle Linux, Mint, Ubuntu/WSL
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You can't, creating a link is a server side job, and the problem lies on the browser.
IE doesn't cares about the mimetype that would have allowed you to hide the fact the file is a pdf one, and anyway ftp doesn't pass a mimetype.
One workaround would probably be to zip the pdf, or to tell the user to right click or whaterver to save the file on the disk.
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Force save to disk
