Resource interpreted as Document but transferred with MIME type application/zip

Question

With Chrome 12.0.742.112, if I redirect with the following headers:

HTTP/1.1 302 Found 
Location: http://0.0.0.0:3000/files/download.zip
Content-Type: text/h         


        

Answer 1

I had a similar issue when performing a file download through Javascript. Adding the download attribute made no difference but adding target='_blank' did - I no longer get the 'Resource interpreted as Document...' console message.

Here's my nicely simple code:

var link = document.createElement('a');
link.target = '_blank';
link.href = url;
document.body.appendChild(link); // Required for Firefox
link.click();
link.remove(); 

I haven't tried it with direct HTML but would expect it to work.

Note I discovered that Firefox requires the link to be appended to the document whereas Chrome will work without it.