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chrome download failed - network error


Failed - Network error

Chrome Debugger window

Screenshot 2 is the debugger window info, and below is the code used to download the file, it was running well in visual studio Chrome Emulators, but when I deploy the code, it stopped working. the same code is used in another place and that one works fine, not sure why this one doesn't work.

    public ActionResult DownloadFile(decimal document_id)
    {
        var DocumentForDownload = riskProfile.GetDocumentForDownload(document_id, isfordownload: true);
        byte[] byteArray = DocumentForDownload.DOCUMENT;
        var filename = DocumentForDownload.DOCUMENT_NAME + "." + DocumentForDownload.EXTENSION;
        string mimeType = "application/" + DocumentForDownload.EXTENSION;
        System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.Clear();
        System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.ClearContent();
        System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.ClearHeaders();
        System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("content-length", byteArray.Length.ToString());
        System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentType = "application/" + DocumentForDownload.EXTENSION;
        System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment; filename=" + filename);
        System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.Charset = "utf-8";
        System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("windows-1250");
        System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.BinaryWrite(byteArray);
        System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.Flush();
        System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.OutputStream.Close();
        System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.End();
        System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.Close();
        return new EmptyResult();
    }

Solution

  • found the solution, the transfer encoding was chunked, which doesn't support content-length header, so we need to specify the transfer-encoding to identity.

    System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Transfer-Encoding", "identity")