I'm confused. I'm downloading the file using navigateToURL() that points to a 
java servlet to download the file. The user sees the browser open a popup 
window to either save the file to a specific folder or choose a program to open 
it (in which case the default seems to be to save the file in the Download 
folder, on a mac at least). Is there something additional I should do that uses 
File.documentsDirectory or File.applicationStorageDirectory? If so, can you 
walk me through it? 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Sean Thayne" <[email protected]> 
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 10:51:18 AM 
Subject: Re: enterprise desktop web app: should it download or email a file to 
user? 

Actually, I would think File.applicationStorageDirectory would work best. 
Especially with the new Apple sand boxing. 

-Sean Thayne 


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Lee Burrows 
<[email protected]>wrote: 

> I would guess that saving to File.documentsDirectory offers best chance of 
> avoiding any enterprise security restrictions 
> 
> 
> On 22/04/2014 18:35, [email protected] wrote: 
> 
>> Thanks Sean. That's fine -- as long as they can originally download it to 
>> view it. 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> 
>> From: "Sean Thayne" <[email protected]> 
>> To: [email protected] 
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 10:27:40 AM 
>> Subject: Re: enterprise desktop web app: should it download or email a 
>> file to user? 
>> 
>> I know that schools usually have a temp drives, that get cleared on 
>> reboot. 
>> 
>> -Sean Thayne 
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:46 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: 
>> 
>> My enterprise Flex desktop web app (yet to be released) has a feature 
>>> allowing users to download a user guide for the application. 
>>> 
>>> Since this file gets stored on a user's hard drive (rather than cache 
>>> memory), I wonder if anyone ever ran into problems with an enterprise not 
>>> allowing their employees to download a file from the internet to their 
>>> hard 
>>> drive (for example, the IT department blocks this kind of functionality)? 
>>> 
>>> If so, I could change the web app to attaching the file in an e-mail and 
>>> sending it to them instead. 
>>> 
>>> Wondering if anyone has an opinion one way or the other which way to go 
>>> here. 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 
> -- 
> Lee Burrows 
> ActionScripter 
> 
> 

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