- From: bytebybyte <zgguanz@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 16:36:52 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-dom@w3.org
Anne van Kesteren-2 wrote: > > On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:24:16 +0200, bytebybyte <zgguanz@hotmail.com> > wrote: >> There are pages that after you submit a form, a file of some sort is >> pushed >> from the server. Under a browser environment, you are prompted to choose >> how >> to deal with it. >> As DOM is about the automation of http handling, there should be a way to >> imitate the interchange between the user agent and server. >> I tried stand alone script with >> xmlhttp.open ("PUT", action-url, false); >> xmlhttp.send(form-name-value-pairs); >> the responsetext is but the form page itself. >> I tried using the MSHTTP and invoke a "click" event on the submit button, >> the page is opened in the browser. >> Looking up W3 and there is event-stream, but no likely the scenario, >> which >> is new and my problem should an old one. >> I have been working over one week but still at nowhere to find a way to >> get >> the file served. Can gurus here shed me some light? >> Much thanks in advance. > > XMLHttpRequest should do the trick. Are you sure that when you perform a > request you actually get the right data back? Some browsers might have > problems with PUT still I suppose, but I don't think so. > > Further questions you probably want to raise on a developer forum though. > This is not a help a mailing list. > > > -- > Anne van Kesteren > http://annevankesteren.nl/ > > > Thanks, I figured out there was not server action but the response of browser is modified somehow by script which is yet to be duplicated. Anyway, thanks for the reply. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-get-reference-to-a-served-file-after-submitting-a-form--tp25750785p25796283.html Sent from the w3.org - www-dom mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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