I am using Google App Engine (python) and have a data: url of a PNG image available on the server. The PNG image was never in a file, as it was generated from some canvas code using toDataUrl() and ajaxed to the server. I would like to allow the user to click a button and be able to select a filename and save the PNG image locally. The Save As dialog box would supply a default filename.png. The target browser is FireFox. I have supplied sample code that doesn't work. There are several questions on stackoverflow that are somewhat like this one, but each is a little different.
I am setting content-disposition as attachment with a suggested filename. I set the header content-type to application/octet-stream. But I don't get the SaveAs dialog. What am I missing?
The app.yaml file is the standard
application: saveas
version: 1
runtime: python
api_version: 1
handlers:
- url: /.*
script: main.py
The index.html is as follows:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
<script>
function saveAsPng()
{
var alldata;
var httpRequest;
var response;
var myheaders;
httprequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
if ( !httprequest )
{
alert("In saveAsPng, XMLHttpRequest failed.");
return;
}
/* Make this a json string */
alldata = JSON.stringify("no data");
try
{
httprequest.open('POST', '/handlebitmap', true);
httprequest.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
httprequest.setRequestHeader("Content-length", alldata.length);
httprequest.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
httprequest.onreadystatechange = function()
{
if ( httprequest.readyState == 4 )
{
if (httprequest.status == 200)
{
/* a status of 200 is good. */
response = null;
try
{
response = JSON.parse(httprequest.responseText);
}
catch (e)
{
response = httprequest.responseText;
}
if ( response == "error" )
{
alert("In saveAsPng callback, response == error");
return false;
}
else
{
/* This is the successful exit. */
//alert("response = " +response);
window.location.href = response;
return true;
}
}
else
{
/* httprequest.status was not 200, so must be an error. */
alert("saveAsPNG callback, status = " +httprequest.status);
return false;
}
} /* End of if where readyState was 4. */
} /* End of the callback function */
/* Make the actual request */
httprequest.send(alldata);
}
catch(e)
{
alert("In saveAsPng, Can't connect to the server");
}
} /* End of the saveAsPng function */
The python code is as follows:
# !/usr/bin/env python
import os
import base64
from google.appengine.ext import webapp
from google.appengine.ext.webapp import template
from google.appengine.ext.webapp import util
class MainPage(webapp.RequestHandler):
""" Renders the main template."""
def get(self):
template_values = { 'title':'Test Save As PNG', }
path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "index.html")
self.response.out.write(template.render(path, template_values))
class BitmapHandler(webapp.RequestHandler):
""" Shows the Save As with a default filename. """
def post(self):
origdata = "data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAAFCAYAAACNbyblAAAAHElEQVQI12P4//8/w38GIAXDIBKE0DHxgljNBAAO9TXL0Y4OHwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg=="
urldata = "iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAAFCAYAAACNbyblAAAAHElEQVQI12P4//8/w38GIAXDIBKE0DHxgljNBAAO9TXL0Y4OHwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg=="
decodeddata = base64.b64decode(urldata)
self.response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/octet-stream'
self.response.headers['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="untitled.png"'
self.response.out.write(decodeddata)
def main():
app = webapp.WSGIApplication([
('/', MainPage),
('/handlebitmap',BitmapHandler),
], debug=True)
util.run_wsgi_app(app)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
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