Hello, Your python script should also send the below, it will force the browse to download the content.
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=file_name.json If you don't have control over the server you could try HTML5: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2011/08/Saving-generated-files-on-the-client-side There are a couple of libraries which make this work in older IE too by using Flash. On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:46 PM, VictoriaH <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have OpenLayers request that calls a python function that returns a > GeoJSON formatted text. I can display the text contents in an alert box, > but > would like to instead force the browser to offer the text as a GeoJSON file > to be downloaded. I would appreciate any help that anyone can offer on how > to do this... > > My python script successfully returns a "Content-Type: application/json\n" > text to the browser, and my request and response code look like this so > far: > > var PM_request = OpenLayers.Request.GET({ > url:'scripts/geoTiff2GeoJSON_edited.py', > callback:processData, > params:coords > //headers:{"Content-Type": "application/json\n"} > }); > > function processData(PM_request) { > var PMjson = new > OpenLayers.Format.JSON().read(PM_request.responseText); > //console.log(PMjson); > alert("Result is:" + PM_request.responseText); > } > > > I would like to add functionality to the processData function above that > opens a download window of some sort where once can acquire the GeoJSON > file... > > Thank you, > > VickH > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/How-to-force-browser-to-download-a-file-with-a-OpenLayers-request-response-tp5154502.html > Sent from the OpenLayers Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-users >
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