Open save as dialog on newly opened window

Question

How in JS/jQuery do I pop open the "Save As" dialog for a newly opened window. Basically I am scraping some data off of a web page. As such I am opening a new window via:

dataWindow = window.open('blank','dataWindow');

I then write the output to the blank window but I want to automatically pop open the "Save As" dialog to save the content of the window to a file (text/csv). How would I do this. I tried:

dataWindow.document.execCommand("saveAs",true,".txt");

but it doesn't seem to do anything.

Answer 1

execCommand is not an ideal way to do this kind of thing, since it's a pretty browser-specific extension to javascript.

There's a good suggestion in this thread to make a Save As dialog happen by returning a content-disposition header to make the browser think that the content is an attachment.

Edit: This other thread also has some suggestions along the same lines.