Rails spinoffs - May 2008 - prototype callback with response.getHeader('Content-type') == 'application/save'

I am using a php script that produce an application/save content :
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$size = filesize($file_path);
header("Content-Type: application/save");
header("Content-Length: $size");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename=\"$file_name\"");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
readfile($file_path);
exit;
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when called from ''new Ajax.Request(...'', the default browser
behavior
(ask the user to open or save the file) is skipped by prototype.js.

how to keep the default browser behavior when
response.getHeader(''Content-type'') ==
''application/save''
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I don''t think you''re going to find a satisfactory solution to
this.
The XHR simply does not behave the way you''re expecting it to.  If you
want the user to download something of that nature, depending on your
application state integrity, you could simply direct the browser to
the downloadable URL.  Or you could open a window and send that window
to the URL, but in either case if you''re looking for that sort of
behavior you aren''t going to find success with the XHR, just be smooth
with the transition and it won''t be much of a difference.

Thinking more on the idea, you could attempt to use an IFRAME but I am
unsure how that would go, but worth a try.

Good luck.



On May 5, 7:13 am, woodman
<forestier.pie...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I am using a php script that produce an application/save content :
> -----
> $size = filesize($file_path);
> header("Content-Type: application/save");
> header("Content-Length: $size");
> header("Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename=\"$file_name\"");
> header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
> readfile($file_path);
> exit;
> -----
> when called from ''new Ajax.Request(...'', the default
browser behavior
> (ask the user to open or save the file) is skipped by prototype.js.
>
> how to keep the default browser behavior when
> response.getHeader(''Content-type'') ==
''application/save''
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