Download file via html5

[Marco Turco]

Hi all,
I have a FWH app running into a W7 virtual machine.
I would like to add a button to download a file via html from a remote server.

Is there a function to do this ? Thank you in advance.

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Marco,

this is what I'm using (but it has nothing to do with HTML5):

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FUNCTION GETURLTOFILE( cUrl, cFile, lAuth )

    LOCAL lOk := .F.

    LOCAL oCli

    DEFAULT lAuth := .F.

    TRY
        oCli = TIPClientHttp():New( cUrl )

        IF lAuth THEN oCli:UseBasicAuth()

        IF EMPTY( oCli ); BREAK; ENDIF

        oCli:nConnTimeout = -1

        IF !oCli:Open(); BREAK; ENDIF

        DEFAULT cFile := oCli:oUrl:cFile

        IF !oCli:ReadToFile( cFile ); BREAK; ENDIF

        lOk = !EMPTY( oCli:cReply ) .AND. "OK" $ UPPER( oCli:cReply )

        IF !lOk; FERASE( cFile ); ENDIF
    CATCH
    END

    IF !EMPTY( oCli ); oCli:Close(); ENDIF

    RETURN lOk

EMG

[Marco Turco]

Hi Enrico,
not bad, thank you, anyway, the best for my customer would to "browse" the directory and select the file instead to write the full url.
Any ideas about this ?

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Marco,

do you mean "browse the remote directories" or the local ones?

EMG

[Marco Turco]

I mean a remote public directory.
A customer has a mac server with static ip and I would like to provide the feature to select a file there from my FWH app (hosted on another server)

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Marco,

I don't know, sorry.

EMG

[anserkk]

I mean a remote public directory.
A customer has a mac server with static ip and I would like to provide the feature to select a file there from my FWH app (hosted on another server)

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oInternet := tInternet():New()
oFtp      := tFtp():New(cIp,oInternet,cFtpUserName,cFtpPassword) 
aFiles:=oFtp:Directory(cFolderName+"\"*.* )

Display the contents of the aFile to the user to choose the required file and then download it. Just an idea

Regards
Anser

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Anser,

I don't think Marco wants to use FTP. Marco?

EMG

[Carlos Mora]

Hi Marco

I would like to add a button to download a file via html from a remote server.

Enrico's code is fine for downloading, you should to provide the link to the file. If you need to surf the website to find the file, there are 2 options: is the webserver using WEBDAV, or just HTTP?
WEBDAV is like ftp built on top of http, would make things easy. If it's published as an html website, it will depend on how the website publishes content so a procedure can be made to browse it.

What software is running in the server? Just a webserver like Apache? Or sth else?

[Marco Turco]

I would avoid to use the ftp.
The EMG solution is fine but I would prefer a solution like that you have (for example) on a webmail where to attach a file you press a button and you can select it from your local computer.