laravel adding .txt on the downloaded file

Question

im trying to give the user ability to download a specific file. here is my code.

but it keeps adding .txt after the file is downloaded which I want is a .csv

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Answer 1

I'm pretty sure that your browser can't interpret the file. According to this solution, you need to force it to open 'save as...' dialog:

$headers = array(
          'Content-Type: text/csv',
          'Content-disposition: attachment'
);