How can I set the Accept Header for a link on a web page?

Question

This is mostly an ivory tower question, since I can easily just make a new URL endpoint. But basically, I\'d like to be able to serve up CSV when the user has the Accept he

Answer 1

For those still interested, there is a way to do this in pure javascript.

The following code uses JQuery (https://jquery.com/) and FileSaver.js (http://purl.eligrey.com/github/FileSaver.js/blob/master/FileSaver.js) though you could write the respective parts yourself:

//in case of non binary data use:
var type = 'text/xml';
var url = 'http://your_url_here/'
$.ajax({accepts:{text:type},
        url:url,
        processData:false, 
        dataType:'text', 
        success:function(data){             
                saveAs(new Blob([data], {type: type}),'filename.txt');                                                                  
            }, 
        error: function(){
               // Handle errors here
            }
    });