Regarding the first part, AJAX requests do not need refreshing the client page. Just concentrate on a test JS script where you click a button, it does AJAX request to server and presents some results in a div.

Yes, this is exactly the problem. I'm familiar with AJAX, having learned several years ago to use it, rolling my own jQuery-free, no module, Javascript routines for this. The problem is that the http headers for a download are not compatible (as far as I can tell) with sending to a single div on a page--the download wants to BE the page. I have yet to get any download dialogue in the browser through an AJAX-initiated request. The only way I have ever gotten it to work is through standard form submission. I guess I'm just ignorant, because I am quite sure there must be a way to do it, but I can't wrap my mind around how to get the browser to download something sent back to a form element on the page via AJAX. If the others were instructing me in how to accomplish this, I haven't grasped it yet.

Blessings,

~Polyglot~

In reply to Re^6: Can two separate responses be sent to the client's browser from Perl, such as via fork{}? by Polyglot
in thread Can two separate responses be sent to the client's browser from Perl, such as via fork{}? by Polyglot

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