Android Chrome browser unnecessarily renames names & types of downloaded files

Question

I thought I\'d repost this since I have more detailed information:

THE ISSUE: Android Chrome browser renames a file to \"Download\" in all cases. It renames the type t

Answer 1

I had a similar problem with downloads on Chrome/Android. .docx files were renamed to filename.bin (or something like that).

Headers included

Content-Type:application/octet-stream

and

Content-Disposition:attachment; filename="something.docx";

Turned out that my problem was in trailing semicolon in "Content-Disposition" header. When there is no semicolon at the end of the line - it works fine:

Content-Disposition:attachment; filename="something.docx"

More info here: http://www.digiblog.de/2011/04/android-and-the-download-file-headers/

So, be sure to check that as well.