Hi Jamileh, The trick with downloading documents (example, a MS Word doc that is stored server-side) with Witango (using the method I describe in my article) - is that anything you add to the output of the TAF will interfer with the content of the document you are trying to download.
Adding anything (spaces, comments, etc,,,) to the TAF output is therefore not part of the original MS Word document, and will therefore corrupt what you are trying to retreive and give you some very unexpected results. You follow me? This download behavior (restriction) will be true for any Web-application environment you use, like ASP, PHP or ColdFusion used to retrieve server-side documents. Remember, when retrieving something this way, you are working with Binary (or pure text) output - NOT HTML output. This is why <@purgeresults> is used just before dumping in the variable with the document contents into your output - to cleanout any extra garbage spaces or text before hand. Hope this helps. Cheers.... Scott Cadillac VP, Research and Development Plus International Corp. 403-281-6090 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.plusinternational.com Does your company have an Enterprise Information Portal? Check out Salsa at www.plusinternational.com/flash/salsa.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wilcox, Jamileh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list witango-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 3:50 PM Subject: RE: Re: Witango-Talk: Enforce Download I just wanted to say thanks...I found this posting in the archives and then the example on Scott's website ( http://www.xml-extra.net/webpage.xmlx?node=38 ). I've mucked with it all day, but I've finally got it! I started to post in for help a half-dozen times because I couldn't get it to work right, but every time I did, something would start working. 8^D Scott - it seems to cause problems if I add anything to the taf (comments, whitespace, etc.) - either the taf breaks & I don't get the download box, or the downloaded file is corrupt. Maybe it's just me, maybe it's my setup (T2K on W2K, browser IE6 on W2K), I dunno because this is the first time we've gotten this working at all. But if that is true, you might want to mention it on your 'Download a secure PDF file' page. Thanks very much! jamileh > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Cadillac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 2:16 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk > Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Enforce Download > > > Hi Aseem, > > Try: > > <@assign name="encodeResults" scope="local" value="false"> > > <@assign name="httpHeader" scope="local" value="Content-type: > application/msword<@char code=13><@char > code=10>Content-Length: <@var > local$fileInfo[1,FileSize]><@char code=13><@char > code=10>Content-Disposition: attachment; > filename=<@dq>some-downloaded-document.doc<@dq><@char > code=13><@char code=10><@USERREFERENCECOOKIE><@char > code=13><@char code=10>"> > > Here's a version of the above, but with phyiscal line-breaks > instead of "<@char code=13><@char code=10>" to help make it > more readable: > > <@assign name="httpHeader" scope="local" value=" > Content-type: application/msword > Content-Length: <@var local$fileInfo[1,FileSize]> > Content-Disposition: attachment; > filename=<@dq>some-downloaded-document.doc<@dq> > <@USERREFERENCECOOKIE> > "> > > Obviously, you can place a variable for your download > filename instead of "some-downloaded-document.doc" > > These properties are part of the HTTP standard and should > work for all browsers. > > Hope this helps. Cheers.... > > Scott Cadillac > http://xml-extra.net > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://witango.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] VP, Research and Development Plus International Corp. 604-469-6543 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.plusinternational.com Vancouver, BC, Canada Does your company have an Enterprise Information Portal? Check out Salsa at www.plusinternational.com/flash/salsa.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aseem Mal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list witango-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 12:14 PM Subject: Witango-Talk: Enforce Download Is there a way I can enforce downloading a given file (like a pdf document or Excel sheet), so that the user is forced to download it and not open the document withing the browser, like IE does for excel & pdf's. Someone, any ideas? -Aseem. ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
