我的方法完全基于jQuery。对我来说，问题是它必须是一个POST-HTTP调用。我希望它是由jQuery单独完成。

解决方案:

$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: "/some/webpage",
    headers: {'X-CSRF-TOKEN': csrfToken},
    data: additionalDataToSend,
    dataType: "text",
    success: function(result) {
        let blob = new Blob([result], { type: "application/octetstream" }); 

        let a = document.createElement('a');
        a.href = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);
        a.download = "test.xml";;
        document.body.appendChild(a);
        a.click();
        document.body.removeChild(a);
        window.URL.revokeObjectURL(a.href);
                        
        ...
    },
    error: errorDialog
});

解释:

我和很多人所做的是在网页上创建一个链接，指出应该下载目标，并将http-request的结果作为目标。之后，我将链接附加到文档，而不是简单地单击链接，然后删除链接。你不再需要iframe了。

神奇之处在于线条

let blob = new Blob([result], { type: "application/octetstream" }); 
a.href = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);

The interesting point is that this solution is only working with a "blob". As you can see in other answers, some are simply using a blob but not explaining why and how to create it. As you can read e.g. in the Mozilla developer documentation you need a file, media ressource or blob for the function "createObjectURL()" to work. The problem is that your http-response might not be any of those. Therefore the first thing you must do is to convert your response to a blob. This is what the first line does. Then you can use the "createObjectURL" with your newly created blob. If you than click the link your browser will open a file-save dialog and you can save your data. Obviously it s possible that you cannot define a fixed filename for your file to download. Then you must make your response more complex like in the answer from Luke.

不要忘记释放内存，特别是在处理大文件时。要获得更多的示例和信息，您可以查看JS blob对象的详细信息

你可以用HTML5

注意:返回的文件数据必须是base64编码的，因为JSON不能编码二进制数据

在我的AJAX响应中，我有一个看起来像这样的数据结构:

{
    result: 'OK',
    download: {
        mimetype: string(mimetype in the form 'major/minor'),
        filename: string(the name of the file to download),
        data: base64(the binary data as base64 to download)
    }
}

这意味着我可以执行以下操作来通过AJAX保存文件

var a = document.createElement('a');
if (window.URL && window.Blob && ('download' in a) && window.atob) {
    // Do it the HTML5 compliant way
    var blob = base64ToBlob(result.download.data, result.download.mimetype);
    var url = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);
    a.href = url;
    a.download = result.download.filename;
    a.click();
    window.URL.revokeObjectURL(url);
}

函数base64ToBlob是从这里取的，必须按照这个函数使用

function base64ToBlob(base64, mimetype, slicesize) {
    if (!window.atob || !window.Uint8Array) {
        // The current browser doesn't have the atob function. Cannot continue
        return null;
    }
    mimetype = mimetype || '';
    slicesize = slicesize || 512;
    var bytechars = atob(base64);
    var bytearrays = [];
    for (var offset = 0; offset < bytechars.length; offset += slicesize) {
        var slice = bytechars.slice(offset, offset + slicesize);
        var bytenums = new Array(slice.length);
        for (var i = 0; i < slice.length; i++) {
            bytenums[i] = slice.charCodeAt(i);
        }
        var bytearray = new Uint8Array(bytenums);
        bytearrays[bytearrays.length] = bytearray;
    }
    return new Blob(bytearrays, {type: mimetype});
};

如果您的服务器正在转储要保存的文件数据，这很好。然而，我还没有完全弄清楚如何实现HTML4的回退

没有人贴出这个@Pekka的解决方案…所以我会把它贴出来。它可以帮助别人。

您不需要通过Ajax来实现这一点。只使用

window.location="download.action?para1=value1...."

2019现代浏览器更新

这是我现在推荐的方法，但有几点注意事项:

需要一个相对现代的浏览器 如果文件非常大，您可能会采取与原始方法(iframe和cookie)类似的方法，因为以下一些操作可能会消耗至少与正在下载的文件相同大的系统内存和/或其他有趣的CPU副作用。

fetch('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1') .then(resp => resp.blob()) .then(blob => { const url = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob); const a = document.createElement('a'); a.style.display = 'none'; a.href = url; // the filename you want a.download = 'todo-1.json'; document.body.appendChild(a); a.click(); window.URL.revokeObjectURL(url); alert('your file has downloaded!'); // or you know, something with better UX... }) .catch(() => alert('oh no!'));

2012年原创jQuery/iframe/Cookie的方法

Bluish在这一点上是完全正确的，你不能通过Ajax做到这一点，因为JavaScript不能直接将文件保存到用户的计算机(出于安全考虑)。不幸的是，将主窗口的URL指向您的文件下载意味着当文件下载发生时，您几乎无法控制用户体验。

我创建了jQuery文件下载，它允许“类似Ajax”的体验，文件下载完成OnSuccess和OnFailure回调，以提供更好的用户体验。看看我的博客文章，关于这个插件解决的常见问题和一些使用它的方法，还有一个jQuery文件下载的演示。这是来源

下面是一个简单的用例演示，使用带有承诺的插件源代码。演示页面还包括许多其他“更好的用户体验”示例。

$.fileDownload('some/file.pdf')
    .done(function () { alert('File download a success!'); })
    .fail(function () { alert('File download failed!'); });

取决于你需要支持什么浏览器，你可以使用https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js/，它允许比jQuery文件下载使用的IFRAME方法更明确的控制。

这是使用MVC时的工作代码，你从控制器中获取文件

假设你有你的字节数组声明和填充，你唯一需要做的是使用文件函数(使用System.Web.Mvc)

byte[] bytes = .... insert your bytes in the array
return File(bytes, System.Net.Mime.MediaTypeNames.Application.Octet, "nameoffile.exe");

然后，在同一个控制器中，添加这两个函数

protected override void OnResultExecuting(ResultExecutingContext context)
    {
        CheckAndHandleFileResult(context);

        base.OnResultExecuting(context);
    }

    private const string FILE_DOWNLOAD_COOKIE_NAME = "fileDownload";

    /// <summary>
    /// If the current response is a FileResult (an MVC base class for files) then write a
    /// cookie to inform jquery.fileDownload that a successful file download has occured
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="context"></param>
    private void CheckAndHandleFileResult(ResultExecutingContext context)
    {
        if (context.Result is FileResult)
            //jquery.fileDownload uses this cookie to determine that a file download has completed successfully
            Response.SetCookie(new HttpCookie(FILE_DOWNLOAD_COOKIE_NAME, "true") { Path = "/" });
        else
            //ensure that the cookie is removed in case someone did a file download without using jquery.fileDownload
            if (Request.Cookies[FILE_DOWNLOAD_COOKIE_NAME] != null)
                Response.Cookies[FILE_DOWNLOAD_COOKIE_NAME].Expires = DateTime.Now.AddYears(-1);
    }

然后你将能够调用你的控制器来下载并获得"success"或"failure"回调

$.fileDownload(mvcUrl('name of the controller'), {
            httpMethod: 'POST',
            successCallback: function (url) {
            //insert success code

            },
            failCallback: function (html, url) {
            //insert fail code
            }
        });

如果你想使用jQuery文件下载，请注意这一点。 您需要重新设置响应，否则将无法下载

    //The IE will only work if you reset response
    getServletResponse().reset();
    //The jquery.fileDownload needs a cookie be set
    getServletResponse().setHeader("Set-Cookie", "fileDownload=true; path=/");
    //Do the reset of your action create InputStream and return

您的操作可以实现ServletResponseAware来访问getServletResponse()