Thursday, March 2, 2017

Download excel (or other format) file from web api controller method

Since javascript does not recognize downloadable file formats, setting mere content-type header is not enough when we want to provide a facility to download a file from web api controller method.

This discussion provides a workaround for the issue:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14831860/download-excel-file-from-page-via-webapi-call
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