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Force browser to use specific Accept field in HTTP request

is it possible to enforce a web browser to use specific mime-type in html request?

<a type="application/pdf" href="https://url.com/">PDF</a> or <a type="text/html" href="https://url.com/">HTML</a> so here browser requests both times with text/html in accept field.

Solution

  • The only time you can control request headers is when the request is being made with XMLHttpRequest or Fetch.

    This problem is better solved by having distinct URLs.

    E.g.

    <a href=“http://example.com/example.pdf”>PDF</a>
<a href=“http://example.com/example”>HTML</a>