How can I download a file in IE 10 or IE 11 using URL of the file and using it?

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This part of code performs quite well for Opera, Mozilla, Chrome, but it cannot perform appropriately in any version of IE

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var link = document.createElement("a");
       link.setAttribute("id", id here);
       
       link.setAttribute("href", URL here);
       var NameToDownload = desired name here;
       link.setAttribute("download", NameToDownload);
       link.innerHTML = NameToDownload;

How can a file be downloaded via IE from the server if I know its URL?
Thank you in advance.

Posted 2-Jun-15 22:19pm

Dzianis Igaravich Leanenka

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Dzianis Igaravich Leanenka 3-Jun-15 5:24am

Oh, Let us forget about IE less than 10 version. The issue should be solved for IE 10,11

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Richard Deeming · Answer 1 · 2015-06-02T22:53:00

Solution 1

As you've discovered, Internet Explorer doesn't support the download attribute:
http://caniuse.com/#feat=download[^]
https://status.modern.ie/adownloadattribute[^]

The only workaround appears to be to use server-side code to specify the Content-Disposition header[^], with the value set to attachment.

Posted 2-Jun-15 22:53pm

Richard Deeming

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Dzianis Igaravich Leanenka 3-Jun-15 5:26am

The attachment is used for IE less than 10 version if I do not make a mistake

Richard Deeming 3-Jun-15 5:28am

Sending Content-Disposition: attachment will work for any modern browser.

Dzianis Igaravich Leanenka · Answer 2 · 2015-06-02T23:27:00

Hmmm, what actually I have found. Such a definition like this one performs well. It performs in an appropriate way only with IE 10 and 11. I

C#

var link = document.createElement("a");
       link.setAttribute("id", id here);

       link.setAttribute("href", URL here);
       var NameToDownload = desired name here;
       
       link.innerHTML = NameToDownload;

But if you prefer to have txt downloaded you'll see the file opened but not saved.
It should be somehow walked around...