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content-disposition

Create and parse HTTP Content-Disposition header

0.5.4

234

MIT

JavaScript

18.67 kB

8,229,244,453 6.8

Installations

npm install content-disposition

Developer Guide

BETA

Typescript

No

Module System

N/A

Min. Node Version

>= 0.6

Node Version

16.7.0

NPM Version

7.20.3 Pull Requests

Open

8

Total

49

Closed

21

Merged

20

Issues

Open

5

Total

32

Closed

27

Releases

0.5.4

v0.5.4

Updated on Dec 10, 2021

0.5.3

v0.5.3

Updated on Dec 17, 2018

0.5.2

v0.5.2

Updated on Dec 09, 2016

0.5.1

v0.5.1

Updated on Jan 17, 2016

0.5.0

v0.5.0

Updated on Oct 11, 2014

0.4.0

v0.4.0

Updated on Sep 21, 2014

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Languages

JavaScript

JavaScript (100%)

Developer

jshttp

Download Statistics

Total Downloads

8,229,244,453

Last Day

7,531,653

Last Week

47,365,350

Last Month

215,850,420

Last Year

1,870,902,664

GitHub Statistics

MIT License

234 Stars

153 Commits

45 Forks

15 Watchers

9 Branches

32 Contributors

Updated on Jun 01, 2025

Maintainers

View All 32 Contributors

Package Meta Information

Latest Version

0.5.4

Package Id

content-disposition@0.5.4

Unpacked Size

18.67 kB

Size

6.58 kB

File Count

NPM Version

7.20.3

Node Version

16.7.0

Published on

Dec 10, 2021

Total Downloads

Cumulative downloads

Total Downloads

8,229,244,453

Last Day

19.3%

7,531,653

Compared to previous day

Last Week

-0.2%

47,365,350

Compared to previous week

Last Month

11.9%

215,850,420

Compared to previous month

Last Year

20%

1,870,902,664

Compared to previous year

Weekly Downloads

Monthly Downloads

Yearly Downloads

Dependencies

safe-buffer

Dev Dependencies

deep-equal eslint eslint-config-standard eslint-plugin-import eslint-plugin-markdown eslint-plugin-node eslint-plugin-promise eslint-plugin-standard istanbul mocha

content-disposition

Create and parse HTTP Content-Disposition header

Installation

1$ npm install content-disposition

API

1var contentDisposition = require('content-disposition')

contentDisposition(filename, options)

Create an attachment Content-Disposition header value using the given file name, if supplied. The filename is optional and if no file name is desired, but you want to specify options, set filename to undefined.

1res.setHeader('Content-Disposition', contentDisposition('∫ maths.pdf'))

note HTTP headers are of the ISO-8859-1 character set. If you are writing this header through a means different from setHeader in Node.js, you'll want to specify the 'binary' encoding in Node.js.

Options

contentDisposition accepts these properties in the options object.

fallback

If the filename option is outside ISO-8859-1, then the file name is actually stored in a supplemental field for clients that support Unicode file names and a ISO-8859-1 version of the file name is automatically generated.

This specifies the ISO-8859-1 file name to override the automatic generation or disables the generation all together, defaults to true.

A string will specify the ISO-8859-1 file name to use in place of automatic generation.
false will disable including a ISO-8859-1 file name and only include the Unicode version (unless the file name is already ISO-8859-1).
true will enable automatic generation if the file name is outside ISO-8859-1.

If the filename option is ISO-8859-1 and this option is specified and has a different value, then the filename option is encoded in the extended field and this set as the fallback field, even though they are both ISO-8859-1.

type

Specifies the disposition type, defaults to "attachment". This can also be "inline", or any other value (all values except inline are treated like attachment, but can convey additional information if both parties agree to it). The type is normalized to lower-case.

contentDisposition.parse(string)

1var disposition = contentDisposition.parse('attachment; filename="EURO rates.txt"; filename*=UTF-8\'\'%e2%82%ac%20rates.txt')

Parse a Content-Disposition header string. This automatically handles extended ("Unicode") parameters by decoding them and providing them under the standard parameter name. This will return an object with the following properties (examples are shown for the string 'attachment; filename="EURO rates.txt"; filename*=UTF-8\'\'%e2%82%ac%20rates.txt'):

type: The disposition type (always lower case). Example: 'attachment'
parameters: An object of the parameters in the disposition (name of parameter always lower case and extended versions replace non-extended versions). Example: {filename: "€ rates.txt"}

Examples

Send a file for download

1var contentDisposition = require('content-disposition')
2var destroy = require('destroy')
3var fs = require('fs')
4var http = require('http')
5var onFinished = require('on-finished')
6
7var filePath = '/path/to/public/plans.pdf'
8
9http.createServer(function onRequest (req, res) {
10  // set headers
11  res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/pdf')
12  res.setHeader('Content-Disposition', contentDisposition(filePath))
13
14  // send file
15  var stream = fs.createReadStream(filePath)
16  stream.pipe(res)
17  onFinished(res, function () {
18    destroy(stream)
19  })
20})

Testing

1$ npm test

References

License

MIT

No vulnerabilities found.

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Security-Policy

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SAST

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CI-Tests

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Code-Review

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Maintained

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Pinned-Dependencies

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Reason

dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 3

Details

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Score

6.8

/10

Last Scanned on 2025-07-14T21:31:27Z

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Developer Guide

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>= 0.6

16.7.0

7.20.3

Pull Requests

8

49

21

20

Issues

5

32

27

Releases

Languages

Developer

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Download Statistics

GitHub Statistics

Maintainers

Package Meta Information

Total Downloads

8,229,244,453

Weekly Downloads

Monthly Downloads

Yearly Downloads

Dependencies

Dev Dependencies

content-disposition

Installation

API

contentDisposition(filename, options)

Options

fallback

type

contentDisposition.parse(string)

Examples

Send a file for download

Testing

References

License

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6.8

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