Question

I have written servlet which actually writes bytes of an image into the response. I am able download the image by submitting form with action get or post to servlet. But how can I request this servlet without leaving the page?

I tried jQuery.get("http://localhost:8080/mydownloadservlet"). Request is getting received in servlet but image is not getting download. Same is working with form submit.

Thanks,
Amit Patel

Answer 1

Following worked.

Created hidden iframe.

<iframe src="" id="hiddenFrm" style="display:none;" frameborder="0"></iframe>

and using jquery downloaded the image by setting src of hidden frame as follows.

function download(url){
    jQuery("#hiddenFrm").attr("src",url);
}