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File->Download causes crash on iOS Safari

See original GitHub issue

Expected Behavior

Selecting File->Download to your computer on iOS Safari should work, or be grayed out.

Actual Behavior

It tries to load a URL starting with blob, and shows an error page including WebKitBlobResource error 1

Operating System and Browser

iOS 11.2.2 Safari

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Comments:18 (8 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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paulkaplancommented, Apr 17, 2018

Looks like using a library that handles the many edge cases of saving files out of the browser like https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js/ would help. It is definitely possible to save those files on mobile safari, just takes a fair bit of trickery.

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redstone-scratchcommented, Jun 23, 2020

Interesting, I’ll test this, even though I’m probably not helping. What version of iOS and Safari?

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