How to show save as on Internet browser of a mobile device

Question

I am writing a page (html, javascript) that is going to be used absolutely for mobile devices. This page is going to serve some files (typeof: pdf, doc, docx and many others) that browser doesn't recognize. How can I force browser to give the option of saving file and open it with the appropriate installed app? I tried _blank but nothing, it opens the page and ... raw data appear (not even a new tab starts).

Answer 1

It sounds like you need to make sure the web server is serving the correct mime-type for your content. For uncommon or forced-download types, it can be served as application/octet-stream .