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- Internet Explorer No Download Prompt Appears Windows 10
- Internet Explorer Download Prompt Not Working
We receive emails with links to documents, or more precisely, links to webpages that contain buttons we click to download documents. I want to automate this under Office 2016, IE 11, and Windows 7 Enterprise. I've gotten this far.
In VBA, I set references to Microsoft HTML Object and Internet Controls libraries. I load the page, locate the button control on the page, and issue the button's click method. Then I get the prompt you see above. I want to save as... that is, each downloaded file will go in a particular directory. How would you do that?
I happen to have a problem with a single Win7 x64 machine. In IE11, no download prompts are appearing and CTRL+J doesn't open anything, if I'm not logged in as an admin or if IE is no started as admin. Weird thing is, that the user is a local admin and still doesn't get any download prompts. Windows 7 x64 system with IE11 is opening file attachments via webmail but not seeing the open/save prompt. I've tweaked the browser, added to trusted sites, made sure download. SOLVED Get Internet Explorer to Prompt for Download - Windows 7 Forum - Spiceworks. I've recently upgrade to Internet Explorer 11 and now when I try to download/open a.PDF file from the internet I get the following options in IE. The Save and Open option is disabled/greyed out. How to enable the option open and save in prompt window of Internet Explorer. Ask Question Asked 1.
EDIT: The URL to the file is not contained in the web page's source. The code for the Download button is this:
- May 22, 2015 This issue has driven me crazy for a week already. Unfortunately I still cannot find a proper solution. Here is the scenario, I need to download then automatically open an MSG outlook mail file from my asp system by IE without prompt for 'Open' or 'Save as'.
- In Internet Explorer 10 and IE 11 Microsoft has hidden the option to automatically open files rather than prompting for you to open or save a file of that type each time you click on it. In earlier versions of IE, the open/save dialog prompt came with a checkbox option to show, or not to.
The prompt is not part of the webpage, so I can't use HTML to find the button. I could use SendKeys (not ideal), but even then, I could only send Alt-S to save. Is there a way of virtually clicking on the down arrow to expose the Save As option? But if I do this, how do I enter the location of the file? Would I have to somehow control the actual Save As dialog box?
Internet Explorer No Download Prompt Appears Windows 10
Assuming I can use SendKeys to send an Alt-S, just before doing that, I could change the registry key that holds the default download location. But this would involve writing to the registry hundreds of times per day. Are there consequences to this? Do I risk corrupting the registry?
EDIT: I suppose if IE automatically downloaded the file, that would solve my problem too Further research uncovers that the option to download without prompts was removed since IE 10.
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Since you have the URL of the page you have just about everything you need to get the file, Part of the post has a version param that does not seem to be included in the original URL. So in short parse out the download button url to get the DocumentLocator ID and the PublicKey. You can also parse through the HTML which has all the info, DocLocID, Version and Key as well.
this is the html source of the form in https://eservices.truecertify.com/?loc=1DC-IAJJJ4-AE58564C&key=Asbg
this is where you get the data to assemble the final URL string
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