RE: Serving Files with AServe

Users select which files from a list they want in an archive. When they hit
submit, a background process executes a shell command to zip the chosen
files into an archive. Once the shell command returns, the URL for the file
is published and the user's web page refreshes to the file's URL which cause
the browser's save dialog to come up.

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Tyler Palmer           [email protected]
 Software Developer, Cyntergy Technology, LLC
          (918)877-6000 ext. 366           
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-----Original Message-----
From: Cooper, Jock [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 12:02 PM
To: Franz Opensource (E-mail)
Subject: RE: Serving Files with AServe


I have my doubts that you'll be able to tell that the download is finished.
Why don't you just write the file directly back to the client?  Is this file
being created in response to client action?
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Tyler Palmer [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 8:21 AM
To: Franz Opensource (E-mail)
Subject: Serving Files with AServe



Is there a way in AllegroServe to tell if a published file has completed
being downloaded by a client browser? 

I have a routine which creates a temporary zip archive, publishes the
resulting file, and then in the refresh of the client browser, refreshes to
a link to the temporary file which causes the browser's "save file" dialog
to pop up.

I want to get rid of the file as soon as possible after the client has
finished downloading it, so that it is not sitting around and taking up
space (as there could potentially be a lot of these temp files being
generated).

How can I tell on the server that a file download has completed? 

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Tyler Palmer          Software Developer, Cyntergy Technology, LLC 
[email protected]              (918)877-6000 ext. 366 
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