Brad,
Maybe you could target an inline frame that then manipulates the DOM
of its parent?
The inline frame could be the one that throws up the open dialog and
all the other stuff related to getting the file.
It could be 1 pixel by 1 pixel and not even be noticed.
HTH,
Randy
On Aug 3, 2009, at 6:55 PM, Brad Perkins wrote:
I'm working on a AJAX page that is using a Flash based uploader for
jQuery (Uploadify, it is nice and worth a look).
When I successfully upload a document, the uploaded file details are
inserted into an area on the current page via DOM manipulation. The
details contain a link to the script that will serve the file. The
link
is not a URL to a file on disk. The script reads a file designated in
the query params and serves the output.
I have something working but the interaction is not ideal. The
problems are:
(1) Clicking the link takes the user away from the page where the link
appears.
(2) Problem 1 was partially solved by putting a target="_blank" which
opens a new window. that it better, but still isn't ideal.
What I would really like is to not disrupt or move away from the
parent
page, and force the appearance of the standard Open dialog with either
the "Save As" or "Open With" options. In other words force the file to
be downloaded and not displayed in the browser (unless they choose
Open
With <favorite browser).
Has anyone done this before? Is it simply a matter of setting the
right
headers and streaming the content?
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