Hi Joseph,
From your explanation, and several internet searches, it looks like what I am looking for is not possible/doable :( As I mentioned, this is a webapp running on jboss. All the user does is click on an option.
For instance, a simple report showing list of countries: [image: Inline image 2] When the user clicks on Print to Server, the request is sent back to the reporting server and a physical file is created in a directory on the server. Then the response below is sent to the user: [image: Inline image 4] All I want is to access the COUNTRY.txt from js. Vanilla js, not ajax. It's not possible to recreate the variables/parameters being sent to the jboss server classes. NB: There are 2 servers at play here: jboss (middleware) and the reporting server. On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Joseph Wayodi <jwayodi@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey,
Let me assume that you're using AJAX, and not doing an actual form submit [1].
First of all, we do not know all of what is returned when you send the HTTP request. There seems to be a JavaScript function that is handling the response, by only displaying "Report printed successfully: abcd.txt" in the popup window. Did you write this function? And can you modify it? If you can, then this is where you should put the code to handle the response to do whatever you want, assuming the HTTP response includes all the data you need.
For reference, check this out: <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/AJAX/Getting_Started>.
[1] < https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLFormElement.submit>
Joseph.
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Bwana Lawi <mail2lawi@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Steve,
I am actually interested in the first part of your answer. The use of ajax to get the contents of the response.
The response, in this case, "Report printed successfully: abcd.txt" comes as the body of the popup window.
Meaning I somehow have to access that window and read the content. Extracting the filename string is easy, dont worry about that
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