Download file by ajax request

Good Generic Code. Thanks leo. Its helpful. Also what do you suggest adding window. The filename will be wrong if the content disposition specifies a non-UTF8 filename. So, after I get the responseText and everything is Ok, I redirect browser like this: window. Pedro Sousa Pedro Sousa 6 6 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges.

Isn't this dangerous security-wise? I would think so because anybody can call download. Since the access has reached a PHP script, htaccess now stops its duty. One should always sanitise the requested file to be read — Prof. Show 2 more comments. I prefer location. Telmo Dias Telmo Dias 3, 2 2 gold badges 31 31 silver badges 42 42 bronze badges.

Alain Cruz Alain Cruz 3, 3 3 gold badges 19 19 silver badges 37 37 bronze badges. Jemil Oyebisi Jemil Oyebisi 7 7 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. Decoding a filename from the header is a little bit more complex Jaime 4, 2 2 gold badges 19 19 silver badges 42 42 bronze badges. Lumic Lumic 41 2 2 bronze badges. Please format your entire code block and provide some additional explanation to your process for future reader benefit.

You can just make the a tag hidden and populate the href dynamically. First you need to separate the page processing from the results download.

Ajax call to generic handler is not working when slow internet connection. How to use ASP. NET validation controls in generic handlers. Sessions not working on generic handler called from ajax? How to send file to ASHX generic handler. How to enable an ajax request? AJAX request doesn't work the first time. Layout: fixed fluid. Web02 2. Strip HTML. Encode HTML. For complex cases where you need to download a file and then manipulate the file's bytes - for example if you are building a Javascript "PPT Viewer", set arraybuffer as the response type.

Through this you can get the percentage of the file downloaded. Through this you can find whether download is being started, happenning or has been completed. Keep in mind that this implementation uses plain JavaScript to make it easier for everybody to follow the example , but the actual download works the same for most frameworks jQuery, Vue, Angular, And, of course, you can find the entire implementation for this on GitHub.

Well, as easy as vertically centering content in divs! Search jQuery Search. Move this topic Cancel. Using jQuery. Thanks in advance Tegatti. Replies Re: Download file using ajax GET request 3 years ago. You are over-thinking it. The browser then downloads it.

Leave a comment on jakecigar's reply. Hi Jake, I've done as you've written, but after downloading file a would execute my home page. If I run it just after downloading, the system just run home page and not execute dowload the file.