Re: download file from an ajax request
| From: | pere roca ristol | Date: | Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:57:45 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: download file from an ajax request | ||
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yes Iv, surely this is a more js/Ajax issue... this is the one who has to
do something with php answer.
sorry,
Pere
2008/6/20 Iv Ray <pobox@verysmall.org>:
> Eric Butera wrote:
>
>> The only thing I can think of is using JS to create some sort of
>> IFRAME, meta redirect, window.location, or a popup window, something
>> that will force the page to hit your download script directly. I've
>> never attempted it myself so I'm not sure what sort of issues IE would
>> have with any of the above.
>>
>
> Well, if we, the illiterate, are going to brainstorm ;) - clicking a
> link/button/image executes JavaScript function, which (via AJAX request)
> hits the php download script. The response will be received by the AJAX
> object.
>
> Nothing php here.
>
> As far as I see the problem, it is - how to pass this response to the
> browser in an elegant way, so that the browser will open a "Save as..."
> dialogue and will direct the stream there.
>
> One could ask this on a JavaScript/AJAX list.
>
> Iv
>