opening a new page was an hypothetical workaround response.stream() is perfect, thank you
Marco On Friday, August 23, 2013 2:30:36 PM UTC+2, Niphlod wrote: > > > > On Friday, August 23, 2013 10:49:07 AM UTC+2, Marco Prosperi wrote: >> >> >> hello, I would like to track the number of user download of some files on >> database. The approach I've thought about is: >> - when the user clicks on the filename link in the first view, myapp >> redirects to a new page (a controller is called which register on the >> database the new click) with 'your download should start shortly' >> - a dialog pops up to download the file >> >> The question is: how to pop up the download file automatically in the >> second view? >> >> thanks in advance for hints, >> >> Marco >> > > the only way to achieve that is by opening a window with javascript..... > web2py.js ships with a $.web2py.popup(theurltoopen) just for the occasion, > but it's easy to do just window.open(url, 'name of the window'). The thing > is: do you really need an intermediate page just to count download clicks ? > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
