Delivering Files with lcServer ?

Fri Apr 25 04:31:15 EDT 2014

I think most websites set the target to a new website in the link, to avoid having stuff randomly load within iframes. so i suggest to just make the link have a target of _blank or maybe _top. Then put the .lc code into its own independent file.

Also make sure to set the "content-transfer-encoding" to "binary" in addition to the "content-type" to "application/zip" (I don't think your'e allowed to define several "content-types" in one definition, and it might choose one of them at random, or just the last specified one).

cheers
Björnke

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On 25 Apr 2014, at 08:38, 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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