Guess you can't do download via ajax. If I use a <form>, it works just
fine. Lesson learned!
On Thursday, March 7, 2013 11:04:08 AM UTC-5, Geoff Bell wrote:
>
> I'm trying to add a download button to our site. Clicking it initiates
> this ajax request:
> $.ajax
> url: '/reports/get_file_from_json_service'
> data: { docId:window.DOCUMENT_ID, file_type:'pdf' }
> type: 'POST'
> success: (data, stat, xhr) => console.log 'download', stat
> error: (xhr, stat, err) => console.log 'download', stat, err
>
>
> This hits some service that retrieves the current document from a
> data-store. For testing in an offline environment, I've mocked an Express
> route and ends up here:
> exports.getPDF = (req, res) ->
> date = new Date().getTime()
> console.log "Downloading document #{req.body.docId} of type
> #{req.body.file_type}"
>
> res.download 'mock_routes/report.pdf', "report#{date}.pdf", (err) ->
> if err
> console.log "something went wrong downloading report-#{date}.pdf",
> err
> else
> console.log 'success'
> exec 'touch mock_routes/report.pdf'
>
>
> This appears to be working. I get a success message from the server, and
> from the client. I can see the PDF body using Chrome's Inspector.
> However, the browser is not prompting me to save the PDF. The response
> header looks like so:
>
> 1. Accept-Ranges:
> bytes
> 2. Cache-Control:
> public, max-age=0
> 3. Connection:
> keep-alive
> 4. Content-Disposition:
> attachment; filename="report1362670336342.pdf"
> 5. Content-Length:
> 30042
> 6. Content-Type:
> application/pdf
> 7. Date:
> Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:32:16 GMT
> 8. ETag:
> "30042-1362670171000"
> 9. Last-Modified:
> Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:29:31 GMT
> 10. Vary:
> Accept-Encoding
> 11. X-Powered-By:
> Express
>
>
> My understanding is that the Content-Disposition tells the browser to save
> the file, and suggest the filename "report{date}.pdf. This isn't happening
> though. Nothing happens. Any ideas why the browser is not prompting to Save
> As?
>
> Thank you,
> Geoff
>
--
--
Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/
Posting guidelines:
https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
Groups "nodejs" group.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
[email protected]
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"nodejs" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
