Auto-closing a popup with a file to download
I have a file, named download.php , which contains a file to be downloaded, so it has the following headers (declared with PHP): header("Content-Type: ".pathinfo($_GET['file'], PATHINFO_EXTENSION)); header("Content-Length: ". filesize($_GET['file'])); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=". $_GET['file']); download.php is opened as a popup with jQuery by an other page. Now I want download.php to self-close (using JavaScript) after some seconds (so I'm secure that download started) but I didn't manage to write working code. Here are the codes I tried (I placed them after headers):