Delivering Files with lcServer ?

[Simon Smith]

Hi Scott

I have done something similar in php before, where a page loads, and then
the file starts downloading a few seconds later, without leaving the main
page.

The main page contains a refresh tag that loads the script that starts the
download:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=sendfile.php" />

and then the sendfile.php consists of:

<?php
header('Content-type: application/pdf');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' .
basename('filename.pdf') . '"');
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
readfile($filename);
?>

Hope this helps.
Simon


On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:

> Hi Peter:
>
> I started setting up a test page to demonstrate, and now I can't get
> anything to work, not even my single page test which worked a dozen times
> yesterday.  [sigh] Not sure what changed.
>
> At any rate, I've seen PHP examples that involve setting content headers
> to facilitate a file transfer, so I figured since lcserver operates
> similarly, it should be possible to initiate the download of a zipped file
> (or any file).
>
> Any examples out there that someone can point me to?
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
>
>
>
>
> On 4/24/14 6:17 PM, "Peter W A Wood" <peterwawood at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi Scott
> >
> >What is the URL of the iframe? Does it include characters such as "?" or
> >"&" ?
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >Peter
> >
> >On 25 Apr 2014, at 08:29, Scott Rossi wrote:
> >
> >> Hello List:
> >>
> >> I'm hoping someone knowledgable about server stuff has a solution to a
> >> problem I have delivering a file using lcServer via an iframe.
> >>
> >> I'm using lcServer with the following code to trigger a file download:
> >>
> >> put url ("binfile:files/sound.zip") into theFile
> >> put header "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=" & quote &
> >> "sound.zip" & quote
> >> put new header "Content-Type: application/force-download"
> >> put new header "Content-Type: application/zip"
> >> put new header "Content-Type: application/octet-stream"
> >> put new header "Content-Type: application/download"
> >> put header "Content-Description: File Transfer"
> >> put header "Content-Length:" && the length of theFile
> >> put theFile
> >>
> >> This appears to work fine from basic web page -- a download is triggered
> >> in the browser and the file is written to the drive.
> >>
> >> When I run the same code on a page within an iframe, I get the raw file
> >> code posted to the iframe. :-(
> >>
> >> All pages reside in the same domain (no cross domain issues) so I'm at a
> >> loss on how to deal with this.  Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Thanks & Regards,
> >>
> >> Scott Rossi
> >> Creative Director
> >> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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