Modify Content-Type

Change the response content type to force documents to open in or outside the browser window or in a special view mode (PDF, XML...)

Total ratings

4.23 (Rating count: 35)

Review summary

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Pros
  • Works as expected for many users.
  • Very useful for modifying content types, especially for PDFs.
  • Allows users to view certain file types inline that would typically be downloaded.
Cons
  • Minimal documentation and support, making it difficult for non-experts.
  • Does not consistently modify content types, particularly with dynamically generated content.
  • Not supported by the latest version of Chrome for some users.
Most mentioned
  • Works as expected.
  • Very useful.
  • Not working in the latest version of Chrome.
  • Minimal documentation.
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Recent rating average: 3.50
All time rating average: 4.23
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Date Author Rating Lang Comment
2024-05-31
Joel Mora		 en I had hopes it worked for me but I tried multiples cases and it didn't
2024-05-31
Joachim Lous		 en Works. Just be sure you know you regexes, and everything that needs to be escaped (like '+'), or the rule won't match.
2023-08-21
Helmut Karlowski		 Works as expected.
2023-08-21
Helmut Karlowski		 en Works as expected.
2021-09-16
Mark Good		 I couldn't not get it to match on any filter expression. Tested my regex and it was valid. It just refused to change the content type. 🤷‍♂️
2021-09-16
Mark Good		 en I couldn't not get it to match on any filter expression. Tested my regex and it was valid. It just refused to change the content type. 🤷‍♂️
2021-04-03
Syamsuwar Andi Matto		 Very useful Kudos!
2021-04-03
Syamsuwar Andi Matto		 en Very useful Kudos!
2020-10-06
Wiley Sanders		 For experts only, minimal documentation. Would be more useful if it had a feature to snoop headers and inform you of a download's mime type.
2020-10-06
Wiley Sanders		 en For experts only, minimal documentation. Would be more useful if it had a feature to snoop headers and inform you of a download's mime type.
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