Html: Download Files and Respond
For a particular web application a user has selected to download a file but since the files is extremely large it will take sometime for it to return. In the process of write out this task, I knew already how I wanted the process to appear. However I didn't give it too much thought as to how I would implement it since I have multiple possible ways to approach it. To make a long story short I ended up doing what I've seen before with Google Drive and just made a button that would direct to a new tab and return the content type in the headers. What this does is allow the user to see a response without impacting the whole page. Note that I used a button instead of a link. Inside the button and create javascript function for the onclick attribute. Inside that function I simply called window.open . There is two reason why I didn't use just a link, the first is I had no clue what the link would point to until the user was done making a selection. The second was beca