How to set downloading file name in ASP.NET Web API

Question

In my ApiController class, I have following method to download a file created by server.

public HttpResponseMessage Get(int id)
{
    try
    {
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Answer 1

You need to add the content-disposition header to the response:

 response.StatusCode = HttpStatusCode.OK;
 response.Content = new StreamContent(result);
 response.AppendHeader("content-disposition", "attachment; filename=" + fileName);
 return response;