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I am trying to serve a download file in my django app, after a bit of research I made the code below but there is one problem, the file is opened in the browser instead of being downloaded.

The files that I serve on my app are exe, and when they open it's just a bunch of random characters.

So how can I specify that I want the file to be downloaded, not opened? Thank you

with open(path_to_apk, 'rb') as fh:
     response = HttpResponse(fh)
     response['Content-Disposition'] = 'inline; filename=' + os.path.basename(path_to_apk)
     return response`
DhiaTN
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Abderrahman Gourragui
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  • Possible duplicate of [Generating file to download with Django](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/908258/generating-file-to-download-with-django) – DhiaTN May 10 '17 at 12:47

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You want to set the Content-disposition header to "attachment" (and set the proper content-type too - from the var names I assume those files are android packages, else replace with the proper content type):

response = HttpResponse(fh, content_type="application/vnd.android.package-archive") 
response["Content-disposition"] = "attachment; filename={}".format(os.path.basename(path_to_apk))
return response
bruno desthuilliers
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  • Thanks this seems to be working, there is a misspelling on the code: instead of format you wrote fomat, maybe you can correct it for others who might want to use your solution. – Abderrahman Gourragui May 10 '17 at 12:15