Avoiding content type issues when downloading a file via browser on Android

Question

If I have a file made available to a browser through my webapp, I normally just set the URL to something like http://website.com/webapp/download/89347/image.jpg

Answer 1

As I wrote at downloading files from android:

Android browser will not download file in button Post events. In post events the file will be some .htm garbage file. to over come this do as below.

In download button click

 protected void ImageButton1_Click(object sender, ImageClickEventArgs e)
    {
        Response.Redirect("download-file.aspx");
    }

and on  download-file.aspx file do as below

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

public partial class mobile_download_file : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        string filename = "usermanual.pdf";
        Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream";
        Response.AppendHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" + "" + filename + "");
        Response.Write(Server.MapPath(Request.ApplicationPath) + "\\" + filename);
        Response.TransmitFile(Server.MapPath(Request.ApplicationPath) + "\\" + filename);
        Response.End();
    }
}

the same can be implemented in php also.