Ajax call to download file returned from RESTful service

Question

I am fairly new to AJAX. I am sending a request to server using AJAX. The service returns a text file. But no download box appears when data is returned. The rest service t

Answer 1

Advice is simple: you cannot download files via AJAX - it's a security policy. I mean you can download the data, but you can't save it to disk from JavaScript side.

If you want to download a file on click, then you can just add href to you a tag. Or open a new window with file's URL.