This doesn't work in webbrowser-app either. When tapping a file to download it, a POST request is sent, but the webview never gets the download request. Here is what I get with the inspector for the POST request (for a file named "pdf.pdf"):
= General = Request URL:https://hubic.com/home/browser/download/ Request Method:POST Status Code:200 OK Remote Address:178.33.124.183:443 = Response Headers = Cache-Control:no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate Content-Disposition:attachment;filename="pdf.pdf" Content-Length:433994 Content-Transfer-Encoding:binary Content-Type:application/pdf Date:Tue, 22 Nov 2016 12:03:25 GMT Expires:Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT Pragma:no-cache Server:nginx Strict-Transport-Security:max-age=15768000 = Request Headers = (Provisional headers are shown) Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded Origin:https://hubic.com Referer:https://hubic.com/home/browser/ Upgrade-Insecure-Requests:1 User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Ubuntu 15.04 like Android 4.4) AppleWebKit/537.36 Chromium/53.0.2785.143 Mobile Safari/537.36 = Form Data = dlName:pdf.pdf X_TOKEN:2dd2802d947db8dbe68ae2d075f41418 files:["default/pdf.pdf"] ** Changed in: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Summary changed: - Problem using hubiC app + Cannot download files from hubic.com -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to webbrowser-app in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1643869 Title: Cannot download files from hubic.com Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: With the hubiC app it is impossible to download a file. It is possible to send files there. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webbrowser-app/+bug/1643869/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp