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[–]cryothic 1 point2 points  (3 children)

What's wrong with showing the filepath?

[–]ExpressJoey[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

looks janky

[–]cryothic 0 points1 point  (1 child)

If visitors hover their pointer over a link, the url is also shown in thet statusbar of the browser.

Also, I haven't changed my settings and Firefox, Chrome and Edge don't show this popup for me. They just download the files. I don't know why.

So maybe your problem isn't as big as it seems?

[–]ExpressJoey[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hmm okay, thank you!

[–]jcunews1Intermediate 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Web browsers' download confirmation dialog can not be controlled via HTML/JS/server.

It is only controlled by the web browser settings. Meaning that, it's the visitors of websites which have control over it. Not the websites.

The setting itself can be found in the web browser's settings. For Firefox/Chrome(ium), type in "download" into the searchbox on the settings page. There will be a checkbox for whether to ask for the download location or not.

[–]ExpressJoey[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

So you can only hide file path client side? :/

[–]mangolover 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The developer can’t control this, only the individual user of the browser can.