13 Jul 2017 To solve this it was necessary to download the file to memory with an XHR In essence the Fetch API fetch() method returns a response, from which a It took me 10 minutes to make my file download through Ajax work with  14 May 2019 The server then returns a response containing the content of the file and some instructional headers specifying how the client should download  The most basic response is returning a string from a route or controller. The download method accepts a file name as the second argument to the method,  23 Jun 2014 Many a times we find a need to download a file on doing a AJAX POST request. Normally we would just use the Response.Write to write the  7 Jul 2016 Triggering a File Download from an XHR Post Request / July 7, 2017 by server, and then trigger a download for the payload of the response. 2 Mar 2009 jQuery Plugin for Requesting Ajax-like File Downloads not yet seen addressed is the Ajax's inability to receive a response in any form but text. plugin to facilitate requests from the front end that result in a file for download.