My goal is to let a user download a PDF from my server. The most common approach to this would be to simply have a link with a download attribute like so
<a href="http://mysource.pdf" download>click here</a>
The problem with this is that I cannot monitor the download or have a callback when it is finished. The browser just hangs until the request is processed and suddenly pops up a download when it is done. So now I am getting pdf data from a server with AJAX and want to download the data via the browser.
So I have something along the lines of
$.get("http://mysource.pdf", (data) ->
#need to somehow trigger a download with this data
)
I've been searching for a while to no avail. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
--edit To clarify why this is not a duplicate, I am asking about triggering a download on data, not a local file.
$('a').click(function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
$.get("http://mysource.pdf", (data) ->
window.location.href = $(this).attr('href');
)
});
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