download file using an ajax request

Question

I want to send an \"ajax download request\" when I click on a button, so I tried in this way:

javascript:

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open(\         


        

Answer 1

I prefer location.assign(url);

Complete syntax example:

document.location.assign('https://www.urltodocument.com/document.pdf');

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location.assign