我使用这个FileSaver.js。在我的情况下，与csv文件，我这样做(在coffescript):

  $.ajax
    url: "url-to-server"
    data: "data-to-send"
    success: (csvData)->
      blob = new Blob([csvData], { type: 'text/csv' })
      saveAs(blob, "filename.csv")

我认为对于大多数复杂的情况，必须对数据进行正确的处理。在底层，filesver .js实现了与Jonathan Amend的答案相同的方法。

参见:http://www.henryalgus.com/reading-binary-files-using-jquery-ajax/ 它将返回一个blob作为响应，然后可以将其放入文件保存器

您使用的服务器端语言是什么?在我的应用程序中，我可以通过在PHP的响应中设置正确的标题轻松地从AJAX调用下载文件:

设置报头服务器端

header("HTTP/1.1 200 OK");
header("Pragma: public");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");

// The optional second 'replace' parameter indicates whether the header
// should replace a previous similar header, or add a second header of
// the same type. By default it will replace, but if you pass in FALSE
// as the second argument you can force multiple headers of the same type.
header("Cache-Control: private", false);

header("Content-type: " . $mimeType);

// $strFileName is, of course, the filename of the file being downloaded. 
// This won't have to be the same name as the actual file.
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"{$strFileName}\""); 

header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Length: " . mb_strlen($strFile));

// $strFile is a binary representation of the file that is being downloaded.
echo $strFile;

这实际上会将浏览器“重定向”到这个下载页面，但正如@ahren已经在他的评论中说的，它不会导航离开当前页面。

这一切都是关于设置正确的头文件，所以我相信您会找到适合您所使用的服务器端语言(如果不是PHP的话)的解决方案。

处理响应客户端

假设您已经知道如何进行AJAX调用，那么在客户端向服务器执行AJAX请求。然后服务器生成一个可以下载该文件的链接，例如你想要指向的“转发”URL。 例如，服务器响应如下:

{
    status: 1, // ok
    // unique one-time download token, not required of course
    message: 'http://yourwebsite.com/getdownload/ska08912dsa'
}

在处理响应时，你在你的主体中注入一个iframe，并将iframe的SRC设置为你刚刚接收到的URL，如下所示(使用jQuery来简化这个例子):

$("body").append("<iframe src='" + data.message +
  "' style='display: none;' ></iframe>");

如果您如上所示设置了正确的标题，iframe将强制下载对话框，而不需要将浏览器从当前页面导航出去。

Note

关于你的问题的额外补充;我认为使用AJAX技术请求东西时最好总是返回JSON。收到JSON响应后，就可以在客户端决定如何处理它。也许，例如，稍后您希望用户单击指向URL的下载链接，而不是强制直接下载，在您当前的设置中，您将不得不更新客户端和服务器端来实现这一点。

不要这么快就放弃，因为这可以(在现代浏览器中)使用FileAPI的部分:

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('POST', url, true);
xhr.responseType = 'blob';
xhr.onload = function () {
    if (this.status === 200) {
        var blob = this.response;
        var filename = "";
        var disposition = xhr.getResponseHeader('Content-Disposition');
        if (disposition && disposition.indexOf('attachment') !== -1) {
            var filenameRegex = /filename[^;=\n]*=((['"]).*?\2|[^;\n]*)/;
            var matches = filenameRegex.exec(disposition);
            if (matches != null && matches[1]) filename = matches[1].replace(/['"]/g, '');
        }

        if (typeof window.navigator.msSaveBlob !== 'undefined') {
            // IE workaround for "HTML7007: One or more blob URLs were revoked by closing the blob for which they were created. These URLs will no longer resolve as the data backing the URL has been freed."
            window.navigator.msSaveBlob(blob, filename);
        } else {
            var URL = window.URL || window.webkitURL;
            var downloadUrl = URL.createObjectURL(blob);

            if (filename) {
                // use HTML5 a[download] attribute to specify filename
                var a = document.createElement("a");
                // safari doesn't support this yet
                if (typeof a.download === 'undefined') {
                    window.location.href = downloadUrl;
                } else {
                    a.href = downloadUrl;
                    a.download = filename;
                    document.body.appendChild(a);
                    a.click();
                }
            } else {
                window.location.href = downloadUrl;
            }

            setTimeout(function () { URL.revokeObjectURL(downloadUrl); }, 100); // cleanup
        }
    }
};
xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
xhr.send($.param(params, true));

或者如果使用jQuery.ajax:

$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: url,
    data: params,
    xhrFields: {
        responseType: 'blob' // to avoid binary data being mangled on charset conversion
    },
    success: function(blob, status, xhr) {
        // check for a filename
        var filename = "";
        var disposition = xhr.getResponseHeader('Content-Disposition');
        if (disposition && disposition.indexOf('attachment') !== -1) {
            var filenameRegex = /filename[^;=\n]*=((['"]).*?\2|[^;\n]*)/;
            var matches = filenameRegex.exec(disposition);
            if (matches != null && matches[1]) filename = matches[1].replace(/['"]/g, '');
        }

        if (typeof window.navigator.msSaveBlob !== 'undefined') {
            // IE workaround for "HTML7007: One or more blob URLs were revoked by closing the blob for which they were created. These URLs will no longer resolve as the data backing the URL has been freed."
            window.navigator.msSaveBlob(blob, filename);
        } else {
            var URL = window.URL || window.webkitURL;
            var downloadUrl = URL.createObjectURL(blob);

            if (filename) {
                // use HTML5 a[download] attribute to specify filename
                var a = document.createElement("a");
                // safari doesn't support this yet
                if (typeof a.download === 'undefined') {
                    window.location.href = downloadUrl;
                } else {
                    a.href = downloadUrl;
                    a.download = filename;
                    document.body.appendChild(a);
                    a.click();
                }
            } else {
                window.location.href = downloadUrl;
            }

            setTimeout(function () { URL.revokeObjectURL(downloadUrl); }, 100); // cleanup
        }
    }
});

对于那些寻找更现代的方法的人，您可以使用fetch API。下面的代码展示了如何下载电子表格文件。

fetch(url, {
    body: JSON.stringify(data),
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8'
    },
})
.then(response => response.blob())
.then(response => {
    const blob = new Blob([response], {type: 'application/application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet'});
    const downloadUrl = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
    const a = document.createElement("a");
    a.href = downloadUrl;
    a.download = "file.xlsx";
    document.body.appendChild(a);
    a.click();
})

我相信这种方法比其他XMLHttpRequest解决方案更容易理解。此外，它具有与jQuery方法相似的语法，不需要添加任何额外的库。

当然，我建议检查一下你正在开发的浏览器，因为这种新方法在IE上行不通。您可以在以下[链接][1]上找到完整的浏览器兼容性列表。

重要提示:在本例中，我将发送一个JSON请求到侦听给定url的服务器。这个url必须设置，在我的例子中，我假设你知道这一部分。另外，考虑请求工作所需的头文件。因为我发送一个JSON，我必须添加内容类型头，并将其设置为application/ JSON;Charset =utf-8，以便让服务器知道它将接收的请求类型。

我想指出在接受的答案中使用这种技术时出现的一些困难，即使用表单post:

You can't set headers on the request. If your authentication schema involves headers, a Json-Web-Token passed in the Authorization header, you'll have to find other way to send it, for example as a query parameter. You can't really tell when the request has finished. Well, you can use a cookie that gets set on response, as done by jquery.fileDownload, but it's FAR from perfect. It won't work for concurrent requests and it will break if a response never arrives. If the server responds with a error, the user will be redirected to the error page. You can only use the content types supported by a form. Which means you can't use JSON.

我最终使用在S3上保存文件并发送预签名URL来获取文件的方法。