Download & Save File Automatically
Hi,
We have a client use case where we need to download & save a file from a server directory to client directory "automatically".
e.g. We wrote a file to Pega server using Connect-File and then need to download/save it to C:\Temp in client machine automatically.
Is there any OOTB way to achieve this?
Thanks,
Will
IP Australia
AU
downloadFile function can be used but I don't think it'll download to temp directory. It'll download to default download directory in your browser. Chrome supports auto download.
Pegasystems Inc.
US
Would think allowing a Browser to directly write to disk would be high security risk.
With Pega you can issue tools.sendFile() in various ways, e.g., R-F-B.downloadFile, which sends a response where the content is earmarked with a certain MIME type, e.g., pdf.
It is up to your Operating System's specified MIME type handler, .e.g., Adobe, to accept the content.
Certain browsers such as Chrome force you to write to your Downloads directory.
Or they might ask you first where you would like to save the file.
Directly opening the content is an option but that entails a security risk.
You would certainly want to avoid or at least be careful opening ".exe", ",jar", etc., files.
You would not be able to use Connect-File to write to the client's disk unless somehow the client's drive is shared on the server where Connect-File runs.
Perhaps there is some way to automate a secure Application (WinSCP?) that runs on the client OS to pull the file from the server?
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_automation
How to trigger that application to run based on a command issued from the Browser again is security risk - IF that were even possible. Node WebKit? Node,js?
Would think allowing a Browser to directly write to disk would be high security risk.
With Pega you can issue tools.sendFile() in various ways, e.g., R-F-B.downloadFile, which sends a response where the content is earmarked with a certain MIME type, e.g., pdf.
It is up to your Operating System's specified MIME type handler, .e.g., Adobe, to accept the content.
Certain browsers such as Chrome force you to write to your Downloads directory.
Or they might ask you first where you would like to save the file.
Directly opening the content is an option but that entails a security risk.
You would certainly want to avoid or at least be careful opening ".exe", ",jar", etc., files.
You would not be able to use Connect-File to write to the client's disk unless somehow the client's drive is shared on the server where Connect-File runs.
Perhaps there is some way to automate a secure Application (WinSCP?) that runs on the client OS to pull the file from the server?
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_automation
How to trigger that application to run based on a command issued from the Browser again is security risk - IF that were even possible. Node WebKit? Node,js?
html5 - Node Webkit - How to execute an exe file? - Stack Overflow
Pegasystems Inc.
US
If you use IE exclusively and allow ActiveX calls it is possible to define a Click Action as "Run Script".
That script could (not saying you should) call a JS function named "createFile" with a parameter named "Text", the value for which can be supplied by a Property.
function createFile (Text)
{
try {
var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemOnject");
var s = fso.CreateTextFile("C:\\Temp\\MyTest.txt",true);
s.WriteLine(Text);
s.Close();
}
catch(e) {
alert(e);
}
}