Force download on click on autocomplete suggestion

[romainpoirier]

Thoroughly Describe the solution you'd like
Download a file on click on suggestion.

Please provide a few use cases for this feature

1. The autocomplete is a search box for files
2. The suggestions could be clicked to directly download the files suggested

Please Describe alternatives you've considered
My suggestions are download links, and this is my setup:

events: {
  input: {
    selection: (event) => {
      const selection = event.detail.selection.value;
      autoCompleteJS.input.value = selection.value;
      if (typeof selection.url != 'undefined') window.location.href = selection.url;
    }
  }
}

Even if adding this to the htaccess, the files aren't downloaded:

<FilesMatch "\.(?i:pdf)$">
  ForceType application/octet-stream
  Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</FilesMatch>

If looks like I can't force download from window.location.href, so I'm looking a way to act like the download attribute of a <a> link (which is working fine in modern browsers).

[trasherdk]

Open the link in a new window, with response having correct type.

[romainpoirier]

Sorry please can you provide an example? Can't figure out what your're suggesting.

I tried to open in a new window (this is working):
window.open(selection.url, '_blank');

But with this in htaccess, the files aren't downloaded (PDF file is still showing instead of downloading):

<FilesMatch "\.(?i:pdf)$">
  ForceType application/octet-stream
  Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</FilesMatch>

With this, I haven't the expected result as I can get using the download attribute on a <a> link.

How to force the response to download it instead of showing it?

[trasherdk]

I did the window.open(selection.url, '_blank') thingy and server-side, in PHP, letting the endpoint set application/octet-stream in the response.