Question

I am creating a simple website which allows user to download some files from the server side. Those file will not be created up front. That is, there will be a button on the html page. When user click that button, the page will ask server to grab those file from another server and zip it to user.

Currently I am using jquery. I created a popup dialog form which has a download button:

$("#dialog-form").dialog({
    autoOpen: false,
    height: 300,
    width: 350,
    modal: true,
    buttons: {
        "Download": function() {},
        close: function() {}
    }
});

When user click the download button, user need to wait for server to generate the file (that is, a blocking call).

I am very new to web development. Can anyone help me out here?

Thanks!

Answer 1

If you just want to give a file you can simply give location of file in download button like

$("#dialog-form").dialog({
    autoOpen: false,
    height: 300,
    width: 350,
    modal: true,
    buttons: {
        "Download": function() {window.location='{your file location}'},
        close: function() {}
    }
});

If you want to give zip format than you need to use some sever side plugin to convert it into zip.