Sending Binary File (PDF) Over SSL Using ASP Script
i have an ASP (iis v5.0) application that generates a pdf file and this file
is saved to the server. it is saved in a location not available to web
users. i have an asp script (below) that sends the pdf file to the user as a
binary stream. So that the user specifies which file to upload, the script
performs some security checking and if it passes, it sends the pdf document.
This works great in HTTP, but i want to do this using SSL. When i try the
same thing over SSL, it gives me a 'File Download' dialog box with Open,
Save, Cancel, More Info. The file name is the name of my script and file
type is 'Adobe Acrobat Control for ActiveX'.
When i click Save or Open i get an error message: Internet Explorer cannot
download [scriptname] IE was not able to open this Internet site. The
requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again
later.
The key to all this is that the report can change and i need to make sure
the data doesn't get cached along the way. Hence there are a bunch of header
manipulation commands included in the send function. Code:
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What I would like to do is load a file's contents from a file on the server
and put the contents.
into a record in a database. For this I need to load the contents in binary
format into a
variable. Anywhere I looked, I've only found text I/O in ASP.
(FileSystemObject and TextStream).
How can I load any kinds of file into a byte array? Or is it enough to load
it as a text stream
and then treat the loaded string as a byte array?
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I have listed the coded that writes it to the screen, but now want to be able to write the information into a file ....
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Try as I might, I can't get binary to work (Word b0rks trying to open the resulting file). When I create a simple RTF in Wordpad and then view its source, Wordpad seems to be embedding the image as hex. Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I could read an image file off the disk in hex format for writing into my RTF?
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Response.Buffer = True
Response.Clear()
Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream"
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Response.Flush()
Response.WriteFile(sFileName)
This works with most every file type I've run across (jpg, gif, doc, ppt, xls, etc..). Normally when the user tries to access a file, a download window pops up asking the user whether he/she wants to open or save the file.
However, when the file is a zip file, the user just receives a blank screen instead of the usual download window. Has any one run into this problem? If yes, how did you resolve it?
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procedure using ADO Stream.
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I'm able to correctly setup the headers etc and do the POST, but I'm unable to include the binary data of the image.
The only way i've been able to do it is if I base64 encode the image. I'm using MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP to do the POST, and I can't seem to do the .send with a form body that includes the binary data of the image. Code:
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ASP code to send the download to the user, and the code I use is basically
like this:
FileName = Request.Form("FileName")
Path = Server.MapPath(FileName)
Set Upload = Server.CreateObject("Persits.Upload")
Upload.SendBinary Path
Set Upload = Nothing
Is there anything that can be done to make this more efficient and to send
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Cannot open C:Documents and SettingsFrostillicusLocal SettingsTemporary
Internet FilesContent.IE5U7GXENGFfile[1].zip
The URL to open the zip file is like this: doc_view.asp?id=1&ver=2
....where id and ver represent the zip file's version in the database. The
code I've pieced together to return the zip file is as follows (note: this
code works fine for PDF, JPG, DOC, XLS, GIF, and all sorts of files - just
not zip - HOWEVER, if I click "save" instead of "open" in the download box
then open the zip file manually, it works fine - Internet Explorer just
won't load WinZip for me automatically) Code:
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One frame split down the middle. The left side is the menu and the right
displays what is selected from the menu.
the user selects from the menu and on the right, clicks on "download image"
link. the user is presented with a download dialog box. The user saves the
image and when it is completed goes and selects another item from the menu.
But this time nothing happens.
It is like i have to refresh the page before anything works again. It is
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on my link i have
<a href="donwload.asp" target="right">download image</a>
How can i fix this?
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I am able to rise "Save or open downloaded file" dialog
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If not Is there a way to nest it inside an image tag as follows:
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and i need the information in a string so I can alter it with my script.
So is there any way to convert Binary to Text just as fast as
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<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT"%>
<%
Response.Expires = 0
Response.Buffer = TRUE
Response.Clear
Response.ContentType = "image/jpeg"
set fso = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
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%>
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inside the binary data is being done in a Unicode format, but i don't
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Code:
Response.ContentType = "application/doc"
Response.BinaryWrite strData
where strData contains the binary data content of the WORD file in a string variable (for PDF, I would set the content type to "application/pdf").
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<%@ Language = VBSCRIPT %>
<% Option Explicit %>
<!-- #include file="dbConn.asp" -->
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Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'
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