Usually when downloading files, suppose using QNetworkAccessManager, the filename is not present at the end of link. How to get proper file names in that case. Even if link doesn't contain a hint of name, firefox always downloads the file with its proper name and extension. We can get a hint of extention using mime-types but what about file names.
Yes. It's the Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=<file name.ext> header. There's a strong suggestion to set the content type to application/octet-stream so browsers and their plugins are not tempted to open it instead.
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I'm serving unversioned files via fossil's uv function. Now, this works fine for files without file extension and for archives. But I need to serve a .txt file. The problem now is that it gets delivered as a HTML page including the fossil web layout around it.
Is there a way to tell fossil to not do that, and instead deliver it as a raw .txt file?
You can specify a mimetype parameter on the URL. For example, mimetype=application/octet-stream will cause it to be offered as download.
For example, instead of https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/uv/download.html, you’d put https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/uv/download.html?mimetype=application/octet-stream.
Fossil reacts to the following mimetypes by putting headers around them:
text/x-fossil-wiki
text/x-markdown
text/html
text/plain
Unfortunately, all other mimetypes appear to lead to the browser downloading the unversioned file instead of displaying it.
If that's a problem, you could try a mimetype of text with no suffix.
Otherwise, you can post on Fossil's support forum. Either as a question or as a feature request. :-)
I am creating a json string in C++ and save it to a file using fstream.
Here is the code for creating the file:
string json="{ \"a\"= 1 }";
fstream datei1("jsonfile.json",ios::out);
file1 << json << endl;
file1.close();
How could one set the mime-type to 'application/json'??
file -i jsonfile.json in linux shell gives me: jsonfile.json: text/plain; charset=utf-8
file command try to guess the type of your file by reading it.
And read your file again: it is a plain text file. There is only a simple object stored, nothing that can lead to the application answer.
So without changing your file data, there is nothing you can do from your code to change file command answer.
From the documentation of file command:
Causes the file command to output mime type strings rather than the
more traditional human readable ones. Thus it may say 'text/plain;
charset=us-ascii' rather than 'ASCII text'. In order for this option
to work, file changes the way it handles files recognized by the
command itself (such as many of the text file types, directories etc),
and makes use of an alternative 'magic' file. (See the FILES section,
below).
/usr/share/file/magic.mgc Default compiled list of magic.
/usr/share/file/magic Directory containing default magic files.
You can read about magic files on the wiki.
Also you can add your own signatures in /etc/magic.
But *.json is a plain text file, without any signatures, thus, probably, it's impossible to make OS think, that some file has application/json mime type without any hacks.
As an example, I'm currently uploading items directly to an S3 bucket using a form. While I was testing, I didn't specify any expected filenames or extensions.
I uploaded a .png which produced this direct link:
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/easyhighlighting2/2015-07-271438019663927upload94788
When I place this inside an img tag, it displays on a web page properly.
My question is, without an extension, how would my browser know what type of file it's loading? Inside the bucket, the file's metadata isn't even filled out.
Is there any way to get that file extension, programmatically?
I'm ready to try any clientside methods available; my server-side language is ColdFusion which is somewhat limiting, but I'm open to suggestions for that as well.
Okay, so after some more extensive digging, I found a method of retrieving the file's type that was only added since CF10 was released; that would explain the lack of documentation.
The answer lies in the FileGetMimeType function.
<cfset someVar = "https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/easyhighlighting2/2015-07-271438019663927upload94788">
<cfset FileType = FileGetMimeType(someVar)>
<cfoutput>#FileType#</cfoutput>
This code would output image/png - which is correct and has worked for every filetype I have tested thus far.
I'm surprised this kind of question hasn't popped up before, but this appears to be the best answer, at least for users of CFML.
Edit:
ColdFusion accomplishes this by either reading the contents of a file, or by trusting its extension. An implicit attribute, 'strict', is used in this function. If true, it reads the file's contents. If false, it uses the provided extension.
True is the default.
Link:
https://wikidocs.adobe.com/wiki/display/coldfusionen/FileGetMimeType
Check the Content-Type HTTP response header returned by Amazon S3.
For example, curl -I https://s3.amazonaws.com/path/to/file fetches only the headers.
I am trying to add one file from file directory in directory.
While I am clicking on +(insert file) the and selecting a file from directory the path is formed as media\test\abc.pdf instead of media/test/abc.pdf.
Even though chrome is able to resolve the url Firefox is not.
I believe it's because you're using a physical file path that you're getting the backslash. One of the simplest things you can do is a string.Replace() expression to make every backslash a forward slash.
Not sure what your specific use case is, or how much work it would be, but if you're going to use the path on the web and your PDF is located in the MediaLibrary, it might be worth looking into using the URL property of the Sitecore.Data.Items.MediaItem object.
I am trying to download a binary file from a http: server. I am using the functions InternetOpenUrl() and then InternetReadFile() to download the file. Is it possible to know the file name before downloading?
What I am doing now to get the file name is- Once the download is complete, using GetFileVersionInfo() and from the buffer i am getting the OrginalFilename, then renaming the file to the OrginalFilename.
Is there any other way to get the file name before downloading?
Thanks
Vinod
Look at HttpQueryInfo. Look at the Content-Type and Content-Disposition headers.
You may have to use HTTP_QUERY_CUSTOM to get raw content-type if it just returns e.g. "text/plain".
To get all the headers (and thereby work out which one contains the information you want) you can use HTTP_QUERY_RAW_HEADERS_CRLF.