Hi,

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 1:12 PM, juhar <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks, I already tried that one, and it worked great on other browsers,
> except on IE8 :( With IE8, I would get a pop-up warning about a possibly
> harmful file. I guess IE8 does this with javascript initiated downloads.
> After accepting the file, the download just disappears into thin air.
>
> This has always been a limitation of that approach: it might not work for
some security settings of the browser.


> Large portion of our users are still using IE8, so I was wondering if
> there's a way to do this without ajax. Or some kind of hack for IE8 to make
> the ajax download succeed. Maybe this is more of an IE8 issue after all...
>

Probably the safest thing is to do it in two steps.

1- do form processing
2- if successful show a panel "click here to get the file" with a download
link (where you actually generate the file).

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Regards - Ernesto Reinaldo Barreiro
Antilia Soft
http://antiliasoft.com/ <http://antiliasoft.com/antilia>

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