Delivering Files with lcServer ?

[Simon Smith]

Hi Scott

Played around with it in LiveCode and got this works for me:

<?lc

put header "Content-type: application/zip"
put header "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=myFile.zip"
put header "Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary"

put "myPDF.zip" into fileToRead
open file fileToRead for binary read
  read from file fileToRead until EOF
  close file fileToRead
put binary it

lc ?>



On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:

> Thanks Simon.  This will likely do what I need.
>
> But I'd really like to know how to do this with lcserver.  That's the
> point, right?  Not to have to rely on PHP?  :-)
>
> What's the LC equivalent of what readfile() is doing below?
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
>
>
>
>
> On 4/24/14 11:03 PM, "Simon Smith" <hello at simonsmith.co> wrote:
>
> >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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