force browser to download a file instead viewing it

Question

On my web I want to have two buttons - first Download that should download a pdf to the user\'s computer and another View that opens pdf in a new t

Answer 1

In the end, as I use nginx, I decided to solve this at http-server level:

location /media  {
    alias /srv/www/novacek/media/;
}

location /download/media {
    alias /srv/www/novacek/media/;
    add_header Content-Disposition "attachment";
}