Hi,
I have a ReST application that I've got a demo client implemented in
Firefox, except for one painful corner case: I cannot work out how to
hand-off a binary response for saving as a file when using MDC's XHR.
This request accepts a zip archive and returns a processed archive
based on the contents.
Is what I would like to do theoretically possible, (e.g. by using the
associated nsiChannel) ?
The File API / FileUpload drafts on dev.w3.org imply that "Save ..."
is intended to be supported by a user agent.
An example of something close is that if I have base64 encoded data as
a result, I can use the data URI scheme:
var xhr = ...
// do request
var result = xhr.responseText;
window.open("data:text/plain;base64 ," + result);
After a lot of digging around, I've still not found if this is
possible with some privileged operations and the Mozilla APIs.
Does anyone have any pointers, or should I just write my client in
Java?
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