Image file download link to test

The download attribute only works for same-origin URLs - you can't use it to download a file from another site. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Here's the code that worked. I have just created this for demo purpose. Shubham Verma Shubham Verma 4, 1 1 gold badge 5 5 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. Michael Eakins 4, 3 3 gold badges 32 32 silver badges 54 54 bronze badges.

Ibad Shaikh Ibad Shaikh 1 1 gold badge 6 6 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. Here is an example to download an image with a URL and dynamic name. Rohit Agrohia Rohit Agrohia 3 3 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Please enable JavaScript in your browser, and reload the page. Easily find broken and malicious links. A single click to check them all. Multiple checks per link. Broken link check : Is the URL properly formatted?

Does the server respond in a reasonable amount of time? Is the SSL certificate valid? Does the return code indicate an error such as for a missing page or for a server error?

Blacklist check : Does the link appear on any blacklists for hosting malicious content? Some requests are easy to deal with: they come from fellow-researchers whom you know well, and whom you trust.

Using strong encryption, you can send them what they have asked for by almost any medium including across the Internet without any real risk.

Other requests come from people you have never heard from before. There are relatively few laws though some countries do have them preventing the secure exchange of viruses between consenting individuals, though it is clearly irresponsible for you simply to make viruses available to anyone who asks.

Your best response to a request from an unknown person is simply to decline politely. Reasons for testing anti-virus software.

Obviously, there is considerable intellectual justification for testing anti-virus software against real viruses. If you are an anti-virus vendor, then you do this or should do it! However, you do not or should not! You use or should use! Using real viruses for testing in the real world is rather like setting fire to the dustbin in your office to see whether the smoke detector is working.

Such a test will give meaningful results, but with unappealing, unacceptable risks. Since it is unacceptable for you to send out real viruses for test or demonstration purposes, you need a file that can safely be passed around and which is obviously non-viral, but which your anti-virus software will react to as if it were a virus.

If your test file is a program, then it should also produce sensible results if it is executed. Add a comment. Irfan Zidan Irfan Zidan 11 3 3 bronze badges. Cristal Cristal 4 4 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password.

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