Could you please explain how to use the API?
Thanks
On 7/30/06, Michiel Beijen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
they are not exactly encrypted, but they ARE compressed. That's why
you could not just extract the binary data and open the file. But
that's also the reason that a 30MB word doc only occupies a fraction
of that once stored in the database...
If you'd extract the attachment using the API it would uncompress the
file nicely.
--
Michiel
On 7/30/06, Jason McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> **
> Hi All,
>
> I wanted to know how Remedy (7.0) stores LOB data. I was trying to extract
> directly from the database a BLOB field (attachment in remedy ; in this case
> it was a PDF file) but although I knew the MIME type and opened it in a
> special tool designed to extract BLOB data, Acrobat Reader refused to open
> it (it said invalid file).
>
> Further, following the same process as above, even if I open a 'text file'
> attachment, the contents seem to be encrypted and I see junk data when
> opening it in Notepad.
>
> Are attachments encrypted by Remedy before storing it in the database? If
> so, how do I bypass remedy and view BLOB data?
>
> (Dev Env)
> ARS 7.0
> Oracle 10g
> OS - Windows
>
> Thanks,
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