Roland,

Sorry I got sidetracked for a few days. Sounds like a good suggestion. I
went ahead and wrote the file to the web server and created a link to the
file with the following code:

Click <a href="<@var <@var user$U_Site>$SecureAppRootUrl><@var
catsite$CGI><@var catsite$RootPath>POS/upload.txt">upload.txt</a> to
download this file.

I was hoping that the standard window's ftp window would popup asking if I
wanted to open, save, or cancel with the option to browse where I wanted to
download the file to. But all it did was give me a blank screen.

I would like the window to popup. Allow the user to download the file. And
then return to the original window.

As you can guess, I haven't tried this before. Can you or anyone else steer
me in the right direction?

Thanks

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Roland Dumas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 11:18 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: File upload


one approach:
- the client has an admin connection to an admin utility that triggers  
the generation of the file, and flagging of the records that were  
exported.
- write the file (sql, csv, whatever) format and give it a unique file  
name (with serial number, timestamp, or something like that)
- In the result html, from the action that creates the file, inclue the  
URL to that file, being careful to use https

- you could skip writing to file and just generate the file to the  
result that gets pushed back to client. Only problem with that is that  
you don't know if the transfer was successful, so could you flag the  
records as having been exported?


On Jun 1, 2004, at 8:35 AM, Fogelson, Steve wrote:

> Windows Web Edition 2003, R:Tango 5
>
> Not sure how to do this. I want to be able to upload orders from my  
> shopping
> cart application to a Point of Sale system. The problem is that the  
> POS is
> located at the client's server.
>
> I know I could write the file to my web server and then have them ftp  
> the
> file to their server, but I was wondering if there was a way write a  
> file to
> the work station where the client is browsing from instead of writing  
> it to
> my web server?
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve Fogelson
> Internet Commerce Solutions
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