Is there any solution like building a pdf file on file system in order
to let the user download it?
Try setting responseType
of XMLHttpRequest
to blob
, substituting download
attribute at a
element for window.open
to allow download of response from XMLHttpRequest
as .pdf
file
var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open("GET", "/path/to/pdf", true);
request.responseType = "blob";
request.onload = function (e) {
if (this.status === 200) {
// `blob` response
console.log(this.response);
// create `objectURL` of `this.response` : `.pdf` as `Blob`
var file = window.URL.createObjectURL(this.response);
var a = document.createElement("a");
a.href = file;
a.download = this.response.name || "detailPDF";
document.body.appendChild(a);
a.click();
// remove `a` following `Save As` dialog,
// `window` regains `focus`
window.onfocus = function () {
document.body.removeChild(a)
}
};
};
request.send();