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I have an href for a user to download/view a pdf file, yet when it is clicked on EE treats it like a URL. Is there a setting or tag that I need to use to let the browser treat this as it normally would?

Thank you!

What are you expecting to happen when a user clicks the download link?
What sort of URL is being created?

My browser is currently set up to open a pdf file with the Reader plugin when I click on a link to a PDF file. EE seems to override this and interprets the filename as a segment rather than let the browser download the file. I end up looking at a broken webpage.

I am wondering if I am going to need to use a PHP download wrapper?

Thank you,
Jim

Was just thinking. Is this directory perhaps in some sort of global EE redirect? I believe the image directory is not so there can be direct external links. Is there someplace to change this setting (if this is indeed the issue)?

Thanks again.

Problem solved. I did not know that they had changed the .htaccess file to remove index.php from the URL, which was causing this issue until the new directory was added to the list.

Hi jcberry,

Glad that you got this resolved. Please post back if you have further questions or problems.

Cheers

Greg

@box-head, thanks for helping out.