I have a PHP file on the server that creates a backup and then returns it as a zip file. There is no HTML returned, just the ZIP file.
My question is:
How can I call Firefox, pass the URL, and tell it where to save the file, and then have that instance of Firefox close? I plan on using Windows Task Scheduler to call this page once per day. The zip file produced has a unique name.
I've seen the option to pass the url, and that works just fine. I also saw the option to open it in a new window. So far I've tried the code below. It opens the file, and the save file dialog. I want this to happen silently.
If there's a better way to accomplish this using another tool rather than Firefox, that would be very helpful.
firefox -new-window https://example.com/bk/makebackup.php?u=username&p=pw&site=site_to_backup
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Using Firefox 70.0.1 on Arch Linux. (I realize that this question might technically belong on SuperUser, but I suspect that no non-developer would ever need to do this.)
I'm trying to debug my code that generates an RSS feed, by viewing it directly in Firefox's XML viewer.
When I enter a feed URL, like https://en.blog.wordpress.com/feed/, Firefox pops up the dialog that asks me what to do with the file. It calls it an "RSS Summary", and I can choose to open it or save it to disk.
I can choose to open it in Firefox, but then the file is first downloaded to disk, and then opened from a file:// URL. The result is that I can't hit F5 to refresh it; I have to enter the URL anew.
This only happens if the Content-Type header is application/rss+xml. A file served up as plain application/xml (like e.g. https://xkcd.com/rss.xml uses) is opened directly.
How can I tell Firefox that application/rss+xml should receive the same treatment and just be viewed as a regular XML file?
Add the „view-source:“ prefix in front of your url as said in this article: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/html/view-source-of-rss-feed-in-firefox/
You should be able to achieve this using an extension.
There is Open in Browser which seems to resolve the issue.
When you try opening the RSS URL with the extension installed, you will be shown a window where you can choose which action to take. You can choose to open the file as XML in the browser window. If you want to be able to hit F5 and reload the file, you may also want to tick "Do this automatically for files like this from now on".
Note that I haven't read the source code of the extension so I don't know if it is safe to use or not.
I am trying to get an html document that's saved on the file system to run through a vbscript first (to check for script injection) and then open in Internet Explorer if the check passes. I have written the vbscript as well as a .bat to call the script, and all of this works when I don't change the file extension (.htm or .html) but do "open with..." and select my .bat file - the vbscript opens it in IE. But when I change the file extension, IE automatically opens the download dialog instead of rendering the html. I want to use a custom extension as a way of only running certain html docs through my script.
So my question is: Is there a way to get Internet Explorer to recognize and render the document in a file with a custom extension?
CatCat's comment about setting the MIME type is the right answer
I have a rails app with file attachments using paperclip. Images and pdfs work fine in that if I click on the linked attachment, the image or pdf opens. If I right click, I can do a save-as.
However, with Office files such as word.docx, I can only download the file. If I go do Dos and type the filename, it will open in MS word. Therefore, I think that I should be able to use the system or system call and just pass the attachment name from paperclip (ie attachment.image.url) to dos and the file should open. I think the command I want would be something like
system(attachment.image.url)
I can't figure out how to write the statement to do that.
Your browser will not (and should not) allow you to execute anything outside of the browser itself, this means that without some external app making the call to your Rails app from the clients machine, you will not be able to open the Word doc without downloading it.
You are able to open the images and PDFs in the browser because the browser supports them, but most browsers won't open Word docs.
You can either have the user download the file, or maybe use a third party viewer that you can open the word doc with inside the browser.
I'm using MooTools as JS-Framework.
When a user clicks the "Show Report"-Button on my website I'm starting Request.HTML to retrieve the path of the requested report.
If the report does not exists yet, its been created on the server (a waiting popup is shown to the user). The report file is saved to a special path on the server and this path is returned to the browser.
After I got the path to the Report-File - the Report can reach about 5 to 8MB - I want to show the user a "Download-ProgressBar" while starting a new Request.HTML to retrieve the big report file.
Everthing until this point works fine. I got the ProgressBar filling up, after its finished I got my big file.
But my problem is now, how I can start something like "Open File" or "Save File As" from JavaScript.
I got the freaking file downloaded and shown in the console but now I want the user to save this file somewhere or to open it directly...
Kind Regard.
Why don't just show a link to that file so that it opens in a new page?
That way one can open in a new window and save from the browser's menu (or use the right click>save to menu).
Since you already have your file serialized most browsers nowadays supports the data uri scheme so if this fine to support a limited subset of browsers you can do
window.open(fileToSave, '_blank');
notably old version of IE don't support all kind of files using data-uri so it will not work for html.
There are some File API in newer browser too, and there are some other solutions involving flash but historically the right way to do this is to navigate to a server page which returns an header
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=yourfilename.html
that will work in any browser (I used this a lot in IE6 with no particular problem).
For our intraNET we need to run application, when user clicks on link. Security is done another way (apache, firewall). This is only for users in our company. Operation system is WindowsXP+ (some Linux).
I tried link to script file (http://intranet.domain.com/run.bat):
Chrome
can't change mimetype
browser downloads it, and after doubleclick and warning it works with .bat
Opera
with mimetypes tunning, it works with .lnk file, immediatly after click
Firefox
with mimetypes tunning, it works with .lnk file, immediatly after click
Explorer
.bat file works after warning and click on 'Run'
Safari
.bat file works after warning and click on 'Run'
It works, but with warnings and clicking. Maybe there are some other solutions (i read here) using AIR2 plugin or NPAPI plugin, but i have no experiences.
I am looking for ready to use plugin written for this purpose (commercial too). Of course we can install any application/plugin on client computer. Plugin which i can render on webpage and configure to run some command with parameters on click event (command and parameters could change on every page load, can not be compiled in plugin).
I know, there are some questions on this topic, but.. i did not find good solution. Thank you for any help.
All those warnings are there for a reason! If you could run a batch file in this way without warning this would be a huge security risk.
The best way to get this to work would be to write a signed ActiveX control that users download to their PC, install (which would require that the user confirm that they wish to install the control) and then have the ActiveX control run the batch file. This would then allow the ActiveX control to run batch files without prompting the user, however is probably way more hassle than its worth for a one-off action.