How to specify content-type and content-disposition with $.ajax() GET response

Question

I would like to make an async GET request that returns back a document with MIME content type and cause it to bring the browser\'s \'Save\' dialog.

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Answer 1

There is no way I know of to get a true Ajax request to pop a save dialog up. This has nothing to do with the headers sent by the server.

If you'd like to programatically pop a save dialog box, you can use jQuery to append a hidden iframe to the page with the URL as it's src. This should pop the dialog box as necessary.

Answer 2

That's something the server has to do. There's nothing you can do from the client side that will force an unwilling server to set response headers.