A big thank you to @Musa and here is a neat function that converts the data to a base64 string. This may come handy to you when handling a binary file (pdf, png, jpeg, docx, ...) file in a WebView that gets the binary file but you need to transfer the file's data safely into your app.
// runs a get/post on url with post variables, where:
// url ... your url
// post ... {'key1':'value1', 'key2':'value2', ...}
// set to null if you need a GET instead of POST req
// done ... function(t) called when request returns
function getFile(url, post, done)
{
var postEnc, method;
if (post == null)
{
postEnc = '';
method = 'GET';
}
else
{
method = 'POST';
postEnc = new FormData();
for(var i in post)
postEnc.append(i, post[i]);
}
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200)
{
var res = this.response;
var reader = new window.FileReader();
reader.readAsDataURL(res);
reader.onloadend = function() { done(reader.result.split('base64,')[1]); }
}
}
xhr.open(method, url);
xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
xhr.send('fname=Henry&lname=Ford');
xhr.responseType = 'blob';
xhr.send(postEnc);
}