Ajax call to download file returned from RESTful service

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Advice is simple: you cannot download files via AJAX – it’s a security policy. I mean you can download the data, but you can’t save it to disk from JavaScript side.

If you want to download a file on click, then you can just add href to you a tag. Or open a new window with file’s URL.

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