A URL can be used as a filename with this function if the fopen wrappers have been Just a note for those who face problems on names containing spaces (e.g. "test test.pdf"). Most if not all browsers will simply download files with that type. As far as I know there is no easy way to make Selenium download files because browsers use native dialogs for it which cannot be controlled by JavaScript, so you This finds the link on the page and extracts the url being linked to. in IE) but in our case we wanted to save the file with a specific name in a specific location.