Noone posted this @Pekka's solution... so I'll post it. It can help someone.
You can't and don't need to do this through Ajax. Just use
window.location="download.action?para1=value1...." 5 of 6
replaced http://stackoverflow.com/ with https://stackoverflow.com/ 
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