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Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0 - Second Edition
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Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0 - Second Edition

by Mark Collin
June 2018
Beginner to intermediate
376 pages
8h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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But that's not the same as clicking on a link and downloading the file

Well, actually it is. When you click on the link, your browser sends a HTTP GET request over to the web server and negotiates a connection. When it has negotiated a connection, it starts to download the file to a temporary location. It then tells your operating system that it's downloading a file and asks what to do with it. This is the point where you will see an OS-level dialog box as the operating system defers that request and asks you what to do.

Once you have told the operating system which filename and which download location to use, and decided if you want to overwrite any existing files, the operating system will pass this information back to the browser. The ...

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