Hallo all.
I need to contact a server side component sending some parameters and
open on the user browser the dialog box for opening or saving the
file.
The file that the server side component creates is a PDF.
So i create clien side this function that contacts the requested url:
executePostAction: function(url) {
if (url != undefined) {
jQuery('<form id="postAction" action="'+ url +'"
method=post></form>').appendTo('body');
jQuery("#postAction").submit().remove();
}
},
and this is the code where i call the function
jQuery.executePostAction('/script/PDFServlet');
Everithing works great on all browsers except ie6 (grrrr damned bill &
steve).
Anyway I tried to get the file via ajax call in this way
jQuery.ajax({
async: false,
url: "/script/PDFServlet",
type: "POST",
success: function(data){
alert(data);
},
error:function(msg) {
alert(msg);
}
});
And the file is downloaded and prompted at the user as toString of the
binary.
Server side the servlet creates the header response this way
response.setContentType("application/pdf");
response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "cache");
response.setHeader("Pragma", "cache");
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition",
"attachment;filename=document.pdf");
Any idea how to fix this problem on ie6?
Kind regards
Massimo
