Product download - force to open in browser?

[sshare]

Hi Everyone,

 

Does anyone know if it's possible to force the browser to open the virtual product instead of offering to save it to the computer?

 

In normal circumstances I would use an htaccess file for this but was wondering if this would work with Prestashop or cause issues?

 

The file type I want to have opened is just a normal PDF.

 

Thank you in advance.

[tomerg3]

What's the point? They will still be able to save the PDF if they open it in their computer, why make it harder?

[sshare]

The point is to (try to) make it harder on them, the PDF that will be opened is only printable.

[tomerg3]

I am not sure if you can easily do that, as the file that is being linked is a .php file, which in turns does the validation to ensure the customer has the right to access the file.

 

Maybe someone else may have an idea, the only "brute force" solution I can think of (and I'm not sure if it will work) is modifying php to include .pdf as a an extension, then changing the get-file.php file to .pdf which will trick the browser to think it's a pdf file and load it directly.

 

Actually, not that I think about it, you may be able to achieve the same thing using a URL rewrite (of get-file.pdf to get-file.php).

[sshare]

Thanks for the input tomerg3, could you point me in the right direction to trying the URL rewrite to see if it will work?

[tomerg3]

It will need to go in your htaccess file. (a rewrite rule that will change the .pdf file to .php)

 

I don't have an example off the top of my head, you may need to research URL rewrite a bit,