I don't get it. Why do you need ajax for a download? Why not a simple link?
If you want you can make it look like a button too.
Quinta-feira, 18 de Outubro de 2012 7:09:09 UTC+1, weheh escreveu:
>
> Is it possible to do a response.stream in the middle of an ajax callback?
>
> I want to give users a button, which if pressed, will tar up all their
> files and initiate a download. Something like this:
>
> TAG.BUTTON(..., _onclick="ajax("%s", [], ':eval');" %
> URL(c='mycontroller', f='mydownload'))
>
> Then later, in mycontroller.py,
>
> def mydownload():
> ... create tarfile ...
> return response.stream(tarfile, attachment=True)
>
> I tried it, but (perhaps obviously to some) it doesn't work. So, how to
> get the mydownload() action to cause the browser to download the tarfile?
>
--
