Jqquery file download php

If I click "download this file" in any given page, and the file is downloadable, then it will download without the given page reloading. Am I missing something? Pekka - downManager. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Trafalmadorian Trafalmadorian 2, 2 2 gold badges 20 20 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. I think this might be the problem let me try your solution. Thanx — Stanley Ngumo.

Thank you very much for this solution — mangia. Why are these solutions so easy once you see them! All I needed was your secret iframe and attr change idea to fix my issue! The secret iframe lets the page still be changed while ajax running in the background and still populates the headers!

Setting multiple Content-Type headers is a bad practice, header overrides the previously set values of the same type. See 2 in media-division. It shouldn't work with post requests,It's passing the parameter in the URL. In my note above I mentioned you do not use ajax at all to perform the download. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. This will limit you to a get request though. BenMorel Steve Steve Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.

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