Laravel file download response content type is text/html in localhost

Question

I try to return file download response in laravel with custom content type, the response content type comes as text/html to browser in localhost. Whereas it works fine in the server machine code. It makes debugging harder.

Is it anything to do with apache server config?

Below is the laravel code used.

return Response::download($filepath, $filename.'_questionaire.csv', array(

            'Content-Type'              => 'text/csv',
            'Content-Disposition'       => 'attachment;filename="'.$filename.'._questionaire.csv"'

            ));

icep87 icep87 · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-05T05:07:05

To force your browser to download CSV files you can add this in the .htaccess file:

AddType application/octet-stream csv

You could also check out:

http://www.thingy-ma-jig.co.uk/blog/06-08-2007/force-a-pdf-to-download

Laravel file download response content type is text/html in localhost

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