On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 03:14:41PM +0200, François Van Der Biest wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm trying to make the browser download a CSV file (created on the fly > by GeoServer using outputFormat=csv) by issuing a call to a WFS v1.1 > protocol's read method. > The XHR is issued as a POST request, and thus, I suspect that > browser's cannot download the response text as a file. > Is this true, and do you know why ? Better : do you see ways to overcome this > ?
Don't use XHR. Just make a <forM> element in the DOM, and call form.submit() with target="_blank" or target an invisible iframe. -- Chris > The response headers seem fine to me : > > Server Jetty(6.1.8) > Content-Type text/csv > Content-Disposition attachment; filename=partenaire.csv > Content-Encoding gzip > Keep-Alive timeout=15, max=94 > Connection Keep-Alive > Transfer-Encoding chunked > > Thank's for shedding light on this. > F. > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
