Auto-closing a popup with a file to download

Question

I have a file, named download.php, which contains a file to be downloaded, so it has the following headers (declared with PHP):

header(\"Content-Typ         


        

Answer 1

You may use the following snippet to close the current window (credits to this SO answer) :

window.open(window.location, '_self').close();

To run this after a given interval, simply use setTimeout

setTimeout(function() { window.open(window.location, '_self').close(); }, 3000);