You don't want AJAX in this situation.... have the page post like
normal and do what you lay out above... AJAX is *not* the solution to
every problem
On Jan 21, 6:46 pm, AlexDeLarge <perkeleenperkelesaat...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have situation like this: I post certain data with $.post to PHP-
> script which is supposed to handle the data, create a file from it and
> then trigger browser to open a Save As-dialog. Everything works just
> fine except the Save As-dialog, I just can't make it pop-up.
>
> For the Save As dialog the PHP-script ha s following statements:
>
> header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename=stats.txt');
> header('Content-type: text/plain');
> readfile('stats.txt');
>
> And this just doesn't work through $.post, or at least I can't make it
> happen.
>
> Is there any way to make this work?
