Force browser to download file as CSV from url
I am downloading a CSV file from a url, how do I set specific response headers to download a file
Desired response headers:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 06:03:38 GMT
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Length: 340
Connection: keep-alive
Expires: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 06:00:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Mon May 29 11:33:38 IST 2017
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="5756913MerchantTransactionFile20170529113338.csv"
Server: Some
Access-Control-Allow-Origin:
Access-Control-Allow-Origin:
authorized: true
authorizehtml: true
Current response headers
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 06:16:52 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.18 (Unix) PHP/5.5.36
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: POST, GET, OPTIONS, DELETE, PUT
Access-Control-Max-Age: 1000
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: x-requested-with, Content-Type, origin, authorization, accept, client-security-token
Expires: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 06:00:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Mon May 29 11:46:52 IST 2017
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 0
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=97
Connection: Keep-Alive
My code:
openFile(url) {
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
}
};
xhttp.open("GET",url, true);
xhttp.send();
//window.open(url, '_blank')
}
Trying to download csv file from url. Please help me. How do I force the browser to download a file.
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The trick here is to convert your data to blob and simulate the click event on the anchor tag with the blob url.
var blob = new Blob([content]);
create a click event
var evnt = new Event('click');
then create an anchor tag like this and dispatch the event
$("<a>", {
download: filename,
href: webkitURL.createObjectURL(blob)
}).get(0).dispatchEvent(evnt);
Here is the function
var download = function(filename, content) {
var blob = new Blob([content]);
var evnt = new Event('click');
$("<a>", {
download: filename,
href: webkitURL.createObjectURL(blob)
}).get(0).dispatchEvent(evnt);
};
Use the download function above.
USAGE: call the load function with two parameters filename
andcontent
openFile(url) {
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function(data) {
if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
download('file.csv', data);
}
};
xhttp.open("GET", url, true);
xhttp.send();
//window.open(url, '_blank')
}
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