How to get absolute url from href with http activity in UIPath?

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By clicking event, I can download the file from the browser. But I want to download with UIPath, not by browser.
‘Copy Link Address’ only give href link like below.

javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$siteContent$lbWindowPdf','')

Is there any way to get an absolute path from href so that I can download it from Http activity?

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hello @Mohammad_Nazmul_Alam

you can get the link of an element using “Get Attribute” activity

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then you can pass the same link inside HTTP request activity

or you can use UIexplorer to get the URL manually

Regards
ajay

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@Ajju Thanks for your reply,
Actually, from url attribute I get parent url which is shown in browser and same page got reloaded. But we need to download pdf file from href.

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@Ajju What about if the URL isn’t the right one of that file (ex-PDF) that he wants to download? If right so, the http request can’t download pdf, rather it will try to refresh that webpage again with that URL attribute.

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@Mohammad_Nazmul_Alam

can you share how it like.
or link to your web page so that what can be done

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@nuibb

yes , what you mentioned is correct, but using Get attribute activity you have so many options , but we need to look for the exact attribute, inner text or inner html something related to Link, if @Mohammad_Nazmul_Alam share the website then, can try to get solution

Regards
ajay

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hey @Ajju I’m having the same issue,
by using url attribute, getting the same output as @Mohammad_Nazmul_Alam said.

then i’ve used href but it works only for some of the hyperlinks, again no exact solution.