If the file is located on the same box as your web app you may want to try sending the path as opposed to the complete url. Just a thought:
send_file "/full/path/uploads/babe.jpg" Although the docs say the default is to send a binary attachment it seems I had to play with the headers a bit, although i am using mod_xsendfile (http://tn123.ath.cx/mod_xsendfile/) so that may have mixed things up a bit can't recall. I'm also doing: render :nothing => true at the end of my controller action. Hope that helps, good luck! Tim On Dec 19, 10:58 am, elioncho <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Frederick, > > Thanks for your input. In my case, the user should download the file > from the ftp server and when I use a redirect to the URL the file is > rendered on the browser (photo or mp3) and the URL becomes visible. My > goal is to hide the URL from where the file is coming and make the > user download the file locally. > > Thanks again, > > Elías > > On Dec 19, 1:48 pm, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On 19 Dec 2008, at 18:30, elioncho wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I was using the method send_file from an action on one of my > > > controllers to send a file to the users. The thing is that now the > > > file will be stored in an FTP and send_file only works with the HTTP > > > protocol. What can I do in this situation? This is what I had that > > > worked via HTTP: > > > > def get_it > > > send_file "http://www.elioncho.com/uploads/babe.jpg"; > > > end > > > All send_file does it put the contents of a local file into your http > > response. If you need to get a file from an ftp server and pass it to > > the user I reckon you'd be better off redirecting them to the url. If > > you need to save a file to an ftp server you could look into Net::FTP > > (but that would block your mongrel for the duration of the transfer) > > > Fred --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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