boston-library / commonwealth-vlr-engine

Commonwealth-VLR-Engine is a Rails engine for creating Blacklight apps that provide access to content from Solr/Fedora, packaging a number of feature-rich enhancements and modifications.
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refactor downloads #92

Closed ebenenglish closed 1 year ago

ebenenglish commented 1 year ago

When I am on the show page for an item that allows downloads And I click the download button and successfully submit the captcha verification The download should start immediately

Currently downloads are extremely slow. When the link is clicked, a new tab is opened, which appears to the user to be loading a page. The page take forever to load, and then the tab closes itself. In many cases the download is "ready" at this point and the user is prompted for a location to save the file by the browser dialog.

Preferably the new tab would not open, and instead the browser would show the download progress in the browser's downloads interface only.