Concent type text html still downloads in browser

As you can see above, the Chinese symbols are not represented in the ISO character set. This is because ISO only includes Latin-based language characters. The result is a bunch of jumbled text, which is the ISO interpretation of the symbols.

Setting the content-type is also important for email accessibility ; it ensures nothing breaks the reading pattern for a subscriber, whether the subscriber is reading the email herself or using a screen reader. Email clients display emails using the same premise; it will display the email based on the content-type.

However, email clients read the content-type value set in the email header and they ignore the meta tag within the HTML. The server sending the email sets the header content. Users can see some of this information at the top of each message when viewing it in an email client.

Here is a snippet of an email header notice the content-type value :. We sent the above code example in an email test to all the email clients Email on Acid supports. Nearly every client renders text based on the content-type value set in the email header. Gmail is the only client that automatically converts your text to UTF-8, regardless of what you set in the header.

One interesting action we noticed: The web-based clients convert your text to the content-type character set before displaying it in the browser. We were able to check this by viewing what content-type they were setting in their meta tags. As it turns out, most of them are using UTF Because email service providers ESPs set content-type in the header, we have another layer of complexity added to our email development.

Here are a couple of ways to tackle this:. Option 1: Contact your email service provider ESP and ask them what content-type they set in the header when sending the emails. Once you know the content-type, use that value in your HTML meta tag when designing the email. To help you with the conversion we have created a free online tool that will convert all of your special characters for you.

Just use this conversion tool before you send your email. It is always important to check your character sets using both Internet Explorer and Firefox, especially if you are using non-Latin characters or copying and pasting content from a text editor like Microsoft Word.

When you send an email test through Email on Acid , our servers are configured to send your email using the UTF-8 Content-Type to each of our supported email clients. Want to see for yourself? Find centralized, trusted content and collaborate around the technologies you use most.

Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. Everything says: "dear browser when you post this form, please post it utf-8 encoded". The browser actually does this.

Every value entered in the input field will be UTF-8 encoded. BUT the browser wont tell this to the server! If the charset is omitted it will assume ISO which is not the charset used for encoding. The result is broken data. Does some one have a clue how to force the current browsers to append the charset to the Content-Type header? What's more, the HTML spec which defines that type, does not propose a charset parameter, so the server can't reasonably expect to get one. It won't make a difference either way for forms in pages served as UTF-8, but in other cases it can end up with inconsistent results.

So you have to tell the Servlet container what encoding to use for parameters if you don't want it to fall back to its default which is usually wrong. In a limited set of circumstances you may be able to call ServletRequest.

Don't eval code inside setTimeout 'getstatus ', ;. Use the fn directly: setTimeout getstatus, ; — Roko C. Jerzy Gebler Jerzy Gebler 9 9 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. What if the user clicks the window? The hide is not getting called in my case — Prashant Pimpale. Worked for me for a pdf download with only some line of codes — Chris.

My case is working on JSP and click to download csv. It works. Show 1 more comment. There are four known approaches to dealing with detecting when a browser download starts: Call fetch , retrieve the entire response, attach an a tag with a download attribute, and trigger a click event.

Modern web browsers will then offer the user the option to save the already retrieved file. There are several downsides with this approach: The entire data blob is stored in RAM, so if the file is large, it will consume that much RAM. For small files, this probably isn't a deal breaker. The user has to wait for the entire file to download before they can save it. They also can't leave the page until it completes.

The built-in web browser file downloader is not used. A cross-domain fetch will probably fail unless CORS headers are set. The iframe fires a load event if a page loads in the iframe instead of starting a download but it does not fire any events if the download starts. Setting a cookie with the web server can then be detected by Javascript in a loop. There are several downsides with this approach: The server and client have to work in concert.

The server has to set a cookie. The client has to detect the cookie. Cross-domain requests won't be able to set the cookie. There are limits to how many cookies can be set per domain. Can't send custom HTTP headers. Use an iframe with URL redirection. The iframe starts a request and once the server has prepared the file, it dumps a HTML document that performs a meta refresh to a new URL, which triggers the download 1 second later.

The load event on the iframe happens when the HTML document loads. There are several downsides with this approach: The server has to maintain storage for the content being downloaded. Requires a cron job or similar to regularly clean up the directory.

The server has to dump out special HTML content when the file is ready. The client has to guess as to when the iframe has actually made the second request to the server and when the download has actually started before removing the iframe from the DOM. This could be overcome by just leaving the iframe in the DOM. The iframe triggers the download request. As soon as the request is made via the iframe, an identical request via XHR is made. If the load event on the iframe fires, an error has occurred, abort the XHR request, and remove the iframe.

If a XHR progress event fires, then downloading has probably started in the iframe, abort the XHR request, wait a few seconds, and then remove the iframe. This allows for larger files to be downloaded without relying on a server-side cookie. There are several downsides with this approach: There are two separate requests made for the same information.

The server can distinguish the XHR from the iframe by checking the incoming headers. If the server waits to send headers until the file data is ready, the XHR can roughly detect when the iframe has started to download even without CORS. The client has to guess as to when the download has actually started to remove the iframe from the DOM. Can't send custom headers on the iframe. CubicleSoft CubicleSoft 1, 15 15 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges.

Elmer Elmer 8, 1 1 gold badge 44 44 silver badges 35 35 bronze badges. Still has the issue of switching window and returning which will cause the modal to hide. JQuery is supported but not required. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Jorge Paulo Jorge Paulo 3 3 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges. Art Geigel Art Geigel 1, 3 3 gold badges 19 19 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges. MB33 MB33 71 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. It's works perfectly.

Thanks for this beatiful sample. I'm very late to the party but I'll put this up here if anyone else would like to know my solution: I had a real struggle with this exact problem but I found a viable solution using iframes I know, I know. It's terrible but it works for a simple problem that I had I had an html page that launched a separate php script that generated the file and then downloaded it. Walker Boh Walker Boh 6 6 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. If the file is ready, do the download.

If the file is not ready, show the progress. That sounds like the temporary-file approach I mentioned above. I might do something like this if it turns out my idea is impossible, but I was hoping to avoid it.

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To second w3d's comment here you'll find some ways to change the charset via htaccess-Directives for the Apache server. No, it's not possible from within the HTML. The servers response header take precedence over the document's meta-tag.

As it's specified in 5. To sum up, conforming user agents must observe the following priorities when determining a document's character encoding from highest priority to lowest :. User agents may provide a mechanism that allows users to override incorrect "charset" information. However, if a user agent offers such a mechanism, it should only offer it for browsing and not for editing, to avoid the creation of Web pages marked with an incorrect "charset" parameter.

In my case the the server's Content-Type header contains the right mime-type but the wrong charset. Placing into the websites root directory. This in combination with the html meta-tag triggers the said browser heuristics to take over the charset from the meta tag. The website is properly decoded. These three browsers had problems with the original configuration and work now all on Fedora Didn't have the problem in the first place.

Does not support UTF-8 so is always choosing Western Latin1 regardless of the server setting and the meta-tag. In addition to what was said here, I'd try use the same charset in all pages - preferably UTF-8 but if nearly everything is iso , use this.

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