POST to server, receive PDF, deliver to user w/ jQuery

Question

I have a link that the user clicks to get a PDF. In jQuery, I create a POST ajax call to the server to get the PDF. The PDF comes to me with the correct content headers et

Answer 1

Take a look at - jQuery Plugin for Requesting Ajax-like File Downloads

The whole plugin is just about 30 lines of code (including comments).

The call is fairly similar to jquery ajax call.

$.download('/export.php','filename=myPDF&format=pdf&content=' + pdfData );

Ofcourse, you have to set the content-type and Content-Disposition headers on the server side as you would for any such download.

In java I would do something like this

response.setContentType("application/pdf");
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename="exported.pdf");