How to download the file on select in jquery combobox.

I have a combo box, it contains some items. Every value has its equivalent .pdf file.

When the user select any option from the Combobox, the corresponding file should get downloaded.

<html>
<head>

</head>
<body>
<form name="f">
      <label>Select your course</label>
      <select id="cmbcourses">
            <option value="">Select Course...</option>
            <option value="BCom.pdf">B.Com</option>
            <option value="BBA.pdf">BBA</option>
            <option value="BCA.pdf">BCA</option>
      </select>
</form>
</body>
</html>
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Q_27985645.html</title>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
	$("#cmbcourses").change(function() {
		// download.php => http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Server_Software/Web_Servers/Apache/Q_25561636.html
		// Ray_Paseur you're the best!
		location.href = "download.php?file="  + $(this).val();
	})
})
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form name="f">
      <label>Select your course</label>
      <select id="cmbcourses">
            <option value="">Select Course...</option>
            <option value="BCom.pdf">B.Com</option>
            <option value="BBA.pdf">BBA</option>
            <option value="BCA.pdf">BCA</option>
      </select>
</form>
</body>
</html>

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$url = $_GET["file"];
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