Hi Richard,
thanks for pointing me to this thread I haven't found before (but
searched for ;)
Dang, I thought giving the "Save as"-dialogue would override security-
issues ("Would you like to download this virus? OK | Cancel").
Yet I believe server-calling methods aren't even a bit saver from a
Users perspective (nobody will care if malicious code is generated in
the client or on the server).
Hopefully there will come up a save solution for doing download-
related-stuff with client-only-techniques. Maybe in ...like... 2012?
Greetings,
Aharef
On Jul 15, 2:41 pm, "Richard D. Worth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Whatever you do, it has to involve the server. The client on it's own won't
> be able to handle it. See this related thread:
>
> "save as" => save contents of a textbox to a file on client's
> PChttp://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_thread/thread/64ca14b...
>
> - Richard
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:08 AM, aharef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
>
> > I want to allow my Users to download a file containing nothing but a
> > string generated in the client. I do have a solution but am rather
> > unhappy with it. In brief:
>
> > Mission:
> > * In my App the User is presented a list of checkboxes to let him
> > select which content (already stored in an attribute of each checkbox)
> > he wants to download as a XML file - pure clientside. Done.
> > * With jQuery my App puts together a string containing XML-markup
> > according to User's selection - still clientside. Done.
> > * Now I want the User to be able to download the contents of the
> > string (with the common "Save as"-dialogue) in a file named
> > "MyData.xml" - also clientside...
>
> > Solution 1 (please see related code below):
> > * Send the string via Ajax to the backend, where a XML-file called
> > "MyData.xml" is created on the local drive.
> > * If this was successful, window.open() is initiated in the client
> > linking the XML-file.
> > * User is happy.
>
> > Yet I am unhappy with Solution 1 since
> > * all data is "uselessly" passed back and forth, even though no
> > contents are changed (just the 'formatting' as a file)...
> > * the generated file still needs to be unlinked in a further Ajax-call
> > after 'x' seconds...
> > * the file is actually displayed in the browser :( But thats solvable
> > PHP-Offtopic ;)
> > Thus I discarded further improvement of Solution 1...
>
> > Solution 2:
> > * Somehow the string is being 'streamed' into the file-download
> > initiated after the User decided to "Save file as" (no rightclick!).
>
> > But how? Help! ;) Do you know any tricks or hints to archive Solution
> > 2 () with jQuery or Javascript?
> > Many thanks in advance and greetings to a great group!
>
> > Aharef
>
> > <code>
> > var filename = "data/MyData.xml";
> > var xmlString = generateXmlString(); // <?xml version="1.0"?
> > ><contacts><contact>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</contact><contact>[EMAIL
> > >PROTECTED]</contact></
> > contacts>
>
> > jQuery.ajax({
> > url: "createfile.php",
> > data: "&filename="+filename+"&xml="+xmlString+"&",
> > dataType: "html",
> > error: function() { alert("Sorry, couldn't create your
> > file..."); },
> > success: function(filename) { window.open(filename,"_blank"); }
> > });
> > </code>- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
