Downloading and renaming a file in Javascript

Asked Mar 28 '16 at 10:21

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I want to hit a URL to download a file and rename the file I get as response using javascript. I tried the following code but its not working. The file is getting downloaded but renaming is not happening

function downloadAndRename(url, fileName){
    var anchor = document.createElement('a');
    $('body').append(anchor);
    anchor.href = url;
    anchor.download = fileName;
    anchor.click();
}

Is there any other way by which I can do this?

edited Mar 28 '16 at 10:48

asked Mar 28 '16 at 10:21

Hari Narayanan

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look at this answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4545311/download-a-file-by-jquery-ajax – Nayana Adassuriya Mar 28 '16 at 10:24
if you handle it client side having response as binary data , you can rename the file – shreyansh Mar 28 '16 at 11:12
check your response once again, are you really getting any response, or its simply a get url which on hitting handles download at server side – shreyansh Mar 28 '16 at 11:29

Downloading and renaming a file in Javascript

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