Want launchUrl() to download a file

[jgfoster]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Use case

I would like to link to a file and have it downloaded instead of displayed in a new tab.

Proposal

Support the download feature available with the <a> tag in HTML.

[stuartmorgan-g]

url_launcher is just intended for opening URLs, so downloading is out of scope. That's something that would be best be handled by a separate package; it's likely that there are already packages that have that functionality.

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