"Frank W. Zammetti (MLists)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/22/2004
01:34:07 PM:
> Are you actually trying to FORWARD to the file or is your intention to
> initiate download of the file?
FORWARD
>
> Your specifying an HTML file though, so I assume you want the user to see
> that page... So, the question is, is it a one-time page display or are
you
> trying to redirect them to another webapp?
> Can you be more specific about what your really trying to do?
Apologies for the vagueness. Many thanks for the help.
My piece of this system is a web app but it's presented through a browser
embedded in a fat client. When the users click a certain link I need to do
some action stuff (which is working) and then render the html page from the
local hard drive. Once it's displayed I'm out of the picture and the fat
c/s app is supposed to takeover.
> If you just need to display it, you could always open a stream on the
file
> and render it to response manually. Seems like a lot of work though...
>
> Can you be more specific about what your really trying to do?
>
> --
> Frank W. Zammetti
> Founder and Chief Software Architect
> Omnytex Technologies
> http://www.omnytex.com
>
> On Wed, September 22, 2004 1:23 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > This doesn't work either. I get a 404 for a local resource or an
outside
> > url. I don't want to hardcode the document.location but I don't know
what
> > other choices there are.
> >
> >
> > Hubert Rabago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/22/2004 12:00:00 PM:
> >
> >> If you need to forward to a resource outside the current web context,
> >> you can try using a redirect.
> >>
> >> <forward name="lapTop" path="http://gmail.google.com";
redirect="true"/>
> >>
> >> Now, whether it'll work when you point it to a local resource... I
> >> think what you'll get is the user's browser will try to look for that
> >> file on the user's machine.
> >>
> >> Hubert
> >>
> >> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:50:29 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Is it possible to forward to a file on a hard drive? I set up a
> >> global
> >> > forward like this
> >> >
> >> > forward name="lapTop" path="C:\project\WorkQueueLaptop.html"
> >> >
> >> > I've since learned that the path is context relative so this is a no
> > go.
> >> > What technique do I need to use? Is it possible to handle this form
> > the
> >> > config file?
> >> >
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