Add mime type to HTML link

Question

I know how to change the MIME type in a webserver. I used this to make sure the browser downloads my .scrpt file instead of opening the plain text version. So far so good bu

Answer 1

Time to answer my own question. This is a really old question and it probably wasn't possible at the time but lots has changed since then. The HTML5 spec added the download attribute:

Download file

This will do exactly what I need, tell the browser to download the file instead of opening it. Thanks to Jonathan Svärdén for solving my years old question!