download widget ?

[alix]

Hi Everyone,

Now that I have learnt about the upload widget : runbasic.proboards82.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1200265517
Thank you Alyce and all others I would like to know if is possible to download ?
I'm busy trying to make a web site to share photos with friends about a 5 days hike we've just made. Each friend must be able to access my RB site, uploads her/his photos, and download the photos deposited by the others.

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[Alyce]

If your site displays the photos, users can right click and choose "save picture as." Will that suffice?

[alix]

that should do ! thanks...
I guess I still can't believe that RB is really going to work on the web !

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[carlgundel]

alix said:

that should do ! thanks...
I guess I still can't believe that RB is really going to work on the web !

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What do you mean?

-Carl

[alix]

Well, for me, programming (in LB or C for example) and making websites (even fairly interactive ones) are two VERY different activities.

On the other hand, Run BASIC appears to be a blend of both activities. This is a very new concept to me, as well as exciting and challenging.

So what I mean is that I have to make a "paradigm shift" (as my old teacher used to say), i.e. learn to think differently. I certainly don't mean that your product is not going to work on the web ....

in runbasic.com/ you say :
Run BASIC Personal Server is an all-in-one system that makes programming for the web easy and fun.

Yes, I agree, but only if you have never programmed the web before . Of course, I only speak from personal experience, and may be wrong...

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[Chris Iverson]

Actually, I have programmed web stuff before, and I still think RB is fun and very easy to use


The way I incorporate downloads is I have a downloads page, which has the names of the files I've added to the server to download. You have to right-click on the link and hit "Save File As", because if you just click it, the web browser thinks it's just text and displays it as such.

[mikeukmid]

Any type of file can be downloaded with httpget$(), (at least the file types i've tried),

'download mp3 file
mp3$ = httpget$("http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/doc_20080129-1642.mp3")
open "downloadtest.mp3" for binary as #bin
print #bin, mp3$
close #bin
print "Download complete."

You could put your photo links into a clickable table and download using the method above, which I use in an application to automatically save podcast files.

Mike.

EDIT: Don't try the example on a dial-up connection, the mp3 file is 10MB

EDIT2: This is not what you meant, is it. I download from the BBC to my server, you want an alternative download method 'FROM' your server to visitors

[turbov21]

mikeukmid said:

EDIT2: This is not what you meant, is it. I download from the BBC to my server, you want an alternative download method 'FROM' your server to visitors

I think what alix wants is to be able to control the "Content-type" header, which is what I use do PHP when I want the download dialog box to pop up. I do hope later versions of RBP will let us have a HEADER command, ala CSSCLASS and TITLEBAR. That would make this kind of this possible, as well as dynamically, directly generating RSS feeds or images.

[carlgundel]

turbov21 said:

mikeukmid said:

EDIT2: This is not what you meant, is it. I download from the BBC to my server, you want an alternative download method 'FROM' your server to visitors

I think what alix wants is to be able to control the "Content-type" header, which is what I use do PHP when I want the download dialog box to pop up. I do hope later versions of RBP will let us have a HEADER command, ala CSSCLASS and TITLEBAR. That would make this kind of this possible, as well as dynamically, directly generating RSS feeds or images.

The HEADER command is a useful idea, but I was under the impression that Alix want an individual link to produce a download when clicked on, without producing a whole new page.

Is Javascript good for that sort of thing?

-Carl

[turbov21]

carlgundel said:

The HEADER command is a useful idea, but I was under the impression that Alix want an individual link to produce a download when clicked on, without producing a whole new page.

Is Javascript good for that sort of thing?

-Carl

I don't know about JavaScript off the top of my head, but a HEADER command, combined with RAW output and UrlKey$, wouldn't require opening a whole new window.

[carlgundel]

turbov21 said:

carlgundel said:

The HEADER command is a useful idea, but I was under the impression that Alix want an individual link to produce a download when clicked on, without producing a whole new page.

Is Javascript good for that sort of thing?

-Carl

I don't know about JavaScript off the top of my head, but a HEADER command, combined with RAW output and UrlKey$, wouldn't require opening a whole new window.

I didn't say a new window, but a new page.

-Carl

[turbov21]

carlgundel said:

I didn't say a new window, but a new page.

-Carl

Got my terms mixed up, sorry. It wouldn't/shouldn't require a new page.

[carlgundel]

turbov21 said:

carlgundel said:

I didn't say a new window, but a new page.

-Carl

Got my terms mixed up, sorry. It wouldn't/shouldn't require a new page.

RAW does return a new page.

-Carl

[turbov21]

If you could use the hypothetical HEADER command to change the Content-Disposition header so the content was set to "download" and the piped out the data with RAW, I'm pretty sure instead of loading a new page it would open up a Save/View dialog box.

[carlgundel]

turbov21 said:

If you could use the hypothetical HEADER command to change the Content-Disposition header so the content was set to "download" and the piped out the data with RAW, I'm pretty sure instead of loading a new page it would open up a Save/View dialog box.

I'll look into that. Thanks.

-Carl