File download triggers page load wait

[bahmutov]

Seems to trigger onBeforeUnload event callback.

In a separate company project, as reported by the user, clicking on the a link downloads the file and starts page load which times out.

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Note that the file is from another domain

Callstack

[bahmutov]

Can we recreate this issue?

[kuceb]

the download attribute has no effect here since it's cross-origin. I believe the browser is simply navigating to the csv file and the default behavior is to download it. If you had a cross-origin png, the file wouldn't be downloaded since the browser's default is to view it.

Since this is actually a page navigation and not a download, there's not a good solution here

[bahmutov]

Good answer @bkucera - that settles it enough