Re: information bar and downloading a file --

btw, the reason that the information bar comes up is because the
location.href is not contained within the button's onclick() event(per
msdn).  Since i'm using ajax i can't synchronously, within the click event,
call location.href -- atleast not that i'm aware of

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:57 PM, cisco <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a page where the user basically sets up a configuration.  One of the
> options for the user is that they can download a file based on this
> configuration .  What i'm doing right now is uploading the configuration
> settings, using ajax and web services, in order to store int he server so
> that the actual download request can be a simple url.  so the callback for
> the download link looks like [1] (without the gmail formatting :))
>
> The problem with my initial approach is, in ie, the information bar pops up
> to block the download.  Once the user agrees he's fine but it's still an
> annoyance i can live without.
>
> The user can save this configuration beforehand but i don't want that to be
> a requirement before they download a file.  Another approeach is to have a
> 'prepare download' button that later notifies the user that his download is
> ready.... but i don't like that approach either but at least i don't need to
> save the configuration a database but i can instead rely on a session or
> cache.  -- something saved in server memory.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions
>
> [1]
> function download() {
>
>  var success = function() {
>     location.href = "link.aspx?someid=3023923920392309230923093";
>  };
>  var failure = function(err) { alert( err.get_message(); };
>
>
>    get_proxy().SetupDownloadConfiguration(
>           buildConfigFromPage(), success, failure );
>
> }
>

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