Re: Using LC server to check for existence of mp3 on our web server?

2017-01-22 Thread Mike Bonner via use-livecode
Nice answer, thx for posting it. On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 4:13 AM, Tim Selander via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Phil and Mike, Thanks for your pointers -- both look like they will work. > Also in continuing to poke around the web, I also found this function that >

Re: Using LC server to check for existence of mp3 on our web server?

2017-01-22 Thread Tim Selander via use-livecode
Phil and Mike, Thanks for your pointers -- both look like they will work. Also in continuing to poke around the web, I also found this function that works: function qrtHTTP_FileExists pURL breakpoint local tSocket, tPath, tHeaders, tCommand set the itemDelimiter to "/" -- extract host IP

Re: Using LC server to check for existence of mp3 on our web server?

2017-01-22 Thread Mike Bonner via use-livecode
If you have php on your second server, and don't have lc, you can do a check with php similar to what you're talking about. This is untested but.. If you have the following php file (perhaps named checkforfile.php) on the alternate server, and send it a get request containing the path to the

Re: Using LC server to check for existence of mp3 on our web server?

2017-01-22 Thread Phil Davis via use-livecode
Hi Tim, Here is a very simplistic way of checking for a file on your server. It assumes your mp3 files are in a 'programs' folder that resides in the 'document root' folder. This script as it is here would be in a .lc file on your server. You pass it a filename in the url and it tells you if

Using LC server to check for existence of mp3 on our web server?

2017-01-21 Thread Tim Selander via use-livecode
Hi, On-rev.com hosting, using LC server to present a list of our AM/FM radio programs for people to listening to on-demand. Out of a month's 20 programs, 3 or 4 might not get uploaded due to copyright issues, etc. Also, mp3's are not on the on-rev.com server, but another hosting service we