Downloading Instead Of Showing Image Or Video File

I am hosting a simple html file on localhost, I want to force google chrome browser to download file instead of opening it. For the same I've used download attribute in anchor tag

Solution 1:

Did you try setting these headers in the response:

response.setContentType("application/octet-stream");
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename=file.ext");

If you really haven't created any kind of servlet/controller to receive the request you might need to configure a filter: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/config/filter.html

You can find a lot of information here too: Set CORS header in Tomcat