Client download of a server generated zip file

Question

Before somebody says, \"duplicate\", I just want to make sure, that folks know, that I have already reviewed these questions:

1) Uses angular and php, not sure what

Answer 1

I updated my bulkdownload method to use $window.open(...) instead of $http.get(...):

function bulkdownload(titles){
    titles = titles || [];
    if ( titles.length > 0 ) {
        var url = '/query/bulkdownload?';
        var len = titles.length;
        for ( var ii = 0; ii < len; ii++ ) {
            url = url + 'titles=' + titles[ii];
            if ( ii < len-1 ) {
                url = url + '&';
            }
        }
        $window.open(url);
    }
};

I have only tested this in IE11.