BookMarker Project - Opening local files on localhost through Django generated pages

2014-05-20 Thread Aseem Bansal
I am working on a BookMarker project for managing my bookmarks. I was creating the search page for lisitng bookmarks as per categories. I hit a snag while testing it. I am unable to open locally stored webpages. I understand that it is for security purposes but is it possible (cross-browser way

Re: BookMarker Project - Opening local files on localhost through Django generated pages

2014-05-20 Thread Adam Stein
On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 11:29 -0700, Aseem Bansal wrote: > I am working on a BookMarker project for managing my bookmarks. I was > creating the search page for lisitng bookmarks as per categories. I > hit a snag while testing it. I am unable to open locally stored > webpages. I understand that it is

Re: BookMarker Project - Opening local files on localhost through Django generated pages

2014-05-21 Thread Aseem Bansal
I am running with DEBUG=TRUE so far On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 12:10:02 AM UTC+5:30, Adam wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 11:29 -0700, Aseem Bansal wrote: > > I am working on a BookMarker project for managing my bookmarks. I was > creating the search page for lisitng bookmarks as per categorie

Re: BookMarker Project - Opening local files on localhost through Django generated pages

2014-05-22 Thread Daniel Roseman
On Tuesday, 20 May 2014 19:29:06 UTC+1, Aseem Bansal wrote: > > I am working on a BookMarker project for managing my bookmarks. I was > creating the search page for lisitng bookmarks as per categories. I hit a > snag while testing it. I am unable to open locally stored webpages. I > understand t

Re: BookMarker Project - Opening local files on localhost through Django generated pages

2014-05-22 Thread Aseem Bansal
I want the the webpage served to the client machine from the server to have a hyperlink. The hyperlink will be for a html file stored on the client machine. After the webpage has been served to the client webbrowser then when the client user clicks on the hyperlink I want the html page to be op

Re: BookMarker Project - Opening local files on localhost through Django generated pages

2014-05-22 Thread Aseem Bansal
The server will not be able to open pages stored on client machine but the client user should be able to open html pages stored on client machine by clicking on a hyperlink manually. On Thursday, May 22, 2014 10:02:52 PM UTC+5:30, Aseem Bansal wrote: > > I want the the webpage served to the cli

Re: BookMarker Project - Opening local files on localhost through Django generated pages

2014-05-22 Thread François Schiettecatte
You can do this with a 'file://...' url, that will cause the browser to open a file on the local file system, the browser won't need to ask for permission, the only issue is that the files will need to be in a known path. François On May 22, 2014, at 12:34 PM, Aseem Bansal wrote: > The server

Re: BookMarker Project - Opening local files on localhost through Django generated pages

2014-05-22 Thread Aseem Bansal
I understand the requirement of file protocol. That's how I keep bookmarks in Chrome currently. But when I served the same as a hyperlink I am getting Not allowed to load local resource: On Thursday, May 22, 2014 10:14:39 PM UTC+5:30, François Schiettecatte wrote: > > You can do this with a 'fi

Re: BookMarker Project - Opening local files on localhost through Django generated pages

2014-05-22 Thread C. Kirby
Errors without code aren't very useful. If you provide the view and template you are rendering it will give us something to latch onto and debug Kirby On Thursday, May 22, 2014 12:23:06 PM UTC-5, Aseem Bansal wrote: > > I understand the requirement of file protocol. That's how I keep bookmarks

Re: BookMarker Project - Opening local files on localhost through Django generated pages

2014-05-22 Thread François Schiettecatte
It would also help to know what is giving the error. I did a quick google search with the text of the error (which you could have done), it looks like browsers are not keen on accessing 'file://...' urls from a web page served by a web server, this for security reasons. For kicks, I embedded a

Re: BookMarker Project - Opening local files on localhost through Django generated pages

2014-05-22 Thread Aseem Bansal
Here is the code so far. I have just kept Bootstrap and JQuery ignored in git. Rest is there https://github.com/anshbansal/Bookmarker On Thursday, May 22, 2014 11:09:09 PM UTC+5:30, C. Kirby wrote: > > Errors without code aren't very useful. If you provide the view and > template you are render

Re: BookMarker Project - Opening local files on localhost through Django generated pages

2014-05-22 Thread Aseem Bansal
The error is coming in Chrome's console not in Python/Django when I try to click on the link in my webbrowser. The HTML generated is below Python 3.4 Docs On Thursday, May 22, 2014 11:30:31 PM UTC+5:30, Aseem Bansal wrote: > > Here is the code so far. I have just kept Bootstrap and JQuery i

Re: BookMarker Project - Opening local files on localhost through Django generated pages

2014-05-22 Thread François Schiettecatte
Well ok, this is not a django issue. Like I said in my previous email the browser is blocking this for security/sandboxing issue. You could start chrome with security ( see http://superuser.com/questions/593726/is-it-possible-to-run-chrome-with-and-without-web-security-at-the-same-time ) and se

Re: BookMarker Project - Opening local files on localhost through Django generated pages

2014-05-22 Thread Aseem Bansal
I had searched that but there should be a way to give permissions. The client can give the permissions. Can the client not? On Thursday, May 22, 2014 11:28:59 PM UTC+5:30, François Schiettecatte wrote: > > It would also help to know what is giving the error. > > I did a quick google search with

Re: BookMarker Project - Opening local files on localhost through Django generated pages

2014-05-22 Thread François Schiettecatte
See my previous email, you can get chrome to launch with securities turned off (and Chromium too with the same command line argument), but not Firefox or Safari, not sure about IE. Not even sure if the flag I mentioned will help in this specific case. And I am not sure about the wisdom of runni

Re: BookMarker Project - Opening local files on localhost through Django generated pages

2014-05-22 Thread Aseem Bansal
There has to be a workaround. Using webbrowser.open via a request to the server on clicking? That's hacky but I started working on Django for this project and if web browsers cannot do this then I made a wrong choice for the technology to use for this project. On Thursday, May 22, 2014 11:46

Re: BookMarker Project - Opening local files on localhost through Django generated pages

2014-05-22 Thread C. Kirby
There are not really any workarounds, just different architecture - save your bookmarks to the django project instead of on the local filesystem. You can also look into using html5 local storage. Just note that either of these architecture changes would mean rolling your own bookmark system ins

Re: BookMarker Project - Opening local files on localhost through Django generated pages

2014-05-22 Thread Aseem Bansal
This bookmarker that I want to make will be th repacement for my webbrowser's boomarks so I will be storing the bookmarks in sqlite DB. As per my understanding using html5 local storage is more of a temporary storage. A sqlite3 db will be portable hence keeping my bookmarks with me in case I wa

Re: BookMarker Project - Opening local files on localhost through Django generated pages

2014-05-22 Thread C. Kirby
If they are always going to be on the same machine then why don't you open the file on the view side and render it as text to the browser? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails

Re: BookMarker Project - Opening local files on localhost through Django generated pages

2014-05-22 Thread François Schiettecatte
You are not going to get a work-around to a page being served by a web server not having access to the local file system, that would be a serious bug in the browser security model. What you can do is have the webpage be a file on your drive, open that with a browser (locally, not via a web serv

Re: BookMarker Project - Opening local files on localhost through Django generated pages

2014-05-24 Thread Aseem Bansal
I am averse to doing that because I have offline bookmarks like the Python documentation also which contain a lot of links. If I rendered it as text then this problem will go in an loop. The browser will not allow any of the rendered links on that page to be opened. So a solution is needed. That

Re: BookMarker Project - Opening local files on localhost through Django generated pages

2014-05-24 Thread Aseem Bansal
Just wanted to say that window.open failed for locally stored files. Guess browser security is good in Chrome. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to d

Re: BookMarker Project - Opening local files on localhost through Django generated pages

2014-05-25 Thread Aseem Bansal
I guess I should tell that the thing worked. Using server to open the web pages worked. I made ajax calls via jQuery to the server and used code there to do the rest. A bummer out of way. Just adding here in case someone is doing the same thing in future. :D -- You received this message becaus