Delivering Files with lcServer ?
Peter W A Wood
peterwawood at gmail.com
Fri Apr 25 05:51:33 EDT 2014
Hi Scott
I suspect the problem with this approach is that the browser will end up sending two sets of headers. The first will be generated automatically by the Browser, the second set from you LiveCode.
You could get around this by adopting a "no html" approach like this:
<?lc
if number of lines in the keys of $_POST > 0 then
put header "Content-type: application/zip"
put header "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=sound.zip"
put header "Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary"
put url "binfile:files/sound.zip" into theFile
put theFile
else
put header "Content-Type: text/html"
put "<html>"
put "<head>"
put "<title>Your Page</title>"
put "</head>"
put "<body>"
# put (all your html)
put "</body>"
put "</html>"
?>
Regards
Peter
On 25 Apr 2014, at 17:00, Scott Rossi wrote:
> Hi Simon:
>
> Well, you helped me figure out a bit more. Your script works, but not in
> the arrangement I'm using (maybe I need to rethink).
>
> I think my problem is I'm trying to trigger the download by reloading the
> same page. I have the lcserver code near the top of the page (note I
> simplified your code):
>
> <?lc
> if number of lines in the keys of $_POST > 0 then
> put header "Content-type: application/zip"
> put header "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=sound.zip"
> put header "Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary"
> put url "binfile:files/sound.zip" into theFile
> put theFile
> end if
> ?>
>
>
> Then there'a simple form on the page:
>
>
> <form method="post" action="index.lc">
> <input type="hidden" name="get" value="true"/>
> <button type="submit">GET FILE</button>
> </form>
>
>
>
> If I place only (the modified version of) your code on a simple page and
> load it in a browser, it downloads the ZIP as expected. When I run all of
> the above on a page and press the submit button, the raw code of the ZIP
> gets written to browser window (Chrome OS X).
>
>
> So maybe I need to figure out another way of loading a page that contains
> the download code. I've tried using redirects and get the same problem --
> raw code in the browser. I don't get what the difference is between
> loading a URL via the browser's address field, and "put"-ting a URL via
> lcserver.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
>
>
>
>
> On 4/25/14 1:23 AM, "Simon Smith" <hello at simonsmith.co> wrote:
>
>> 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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