I am trying to write some text to the file on Server. Text file server path is:
http://test.info.com/log.txt
So, whatever we will write on this text file can able to see in browser. Please anyone suggest me.
In one word, There is no on the fly write possible from mobile to server file.
Justification:
Question:
What's happen if I paste the logfile URL(http://test.info.com/log.txt)
into the browser?
Answer:
It will just download the log.txt file. Also, It will not allow doing
direct editing in the browser too. If it will is not feasible from the browser So how can we do it from the mobile end?
Alternatives:
Recently I worked with the same type of requirements. I have achieved it by creating the local log.txt file. Write into this file. Every day, I have uploaded the same log file into the server.
To write into the log file, I have used SwiftLog(Simple and easy logging in Swift)
You need to create 2 APIs on the server where your text file is kept. One API to get the data of the text file. Once that is done, show it in a TextView and edit it.
After editing, you can call another api to send the updated data back to the server.
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I'm implementing a WebDAV file server using the ITHit WebDave engine, i have the following problem
When i list the files and open one of them i get the ReadAsync method called, i provide the content and the file is opened correctly
However any changes i make to the file can't be saved, i get an error saying
A device attached to the system is not working
I looked at the file system samples and implemented support based on the FileSystemStorage.AspNetCore sample,
From what can understand the WriteAsync method is used when creating new files, should i expect for WriteAsync to also be called for file edits that need to be changed?
Am i wrong in the assumption that DavFile.WriteAsync will be called with a stream for the updated content?
If WriteAsync is not the right location to save updates to a file, could you provide some guidance on the process of saving changes to existing files?
Edited to add:
Now i can see that after i dismiss the first error about the device not working i get the standard save dialog box, if i click save it asks me if i want to overwrite the existing file, after accepting to overwrite then WriteAsync is called and i can update the file contents
I'm not quite sure why it would first tell me there's an error and then still allow me to write the file but only as replacement to the original file
Thanks for your help
Fixed, i found that there were issues with the ILockAsync implementation, reviewing the FileSystemStorage sample helped fix the issue with locking files before writing or updating properties
I am trying to assign a text file to a dropbox link so that I can read and write to it from anywhere instead of using a local text file. I have tried the following code, but it doesn't seem to work.
assignfile(txtfile, 'http:/dropbox.com/s/0872ng3r7rg0pwq/share.txt?raw=1');
rewrite(txtfile);
writeln(txtfile, 'text');
closefile(txt)
How can I do this?
You cannot easily work with a remote file like this. Unless Dropbox supports a protocol like Samba, which would enable you to mount it as a virtual drive, you need to do some more work with the file.
The course of action here would be:
Download the contents of the file.
Edit it however you want.
Upload it back to the server. To do that, you need to use Dropbox API. See https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-upload for example (I am not sure if this particular method is what you need, I am guessing).
Basically I get an error every time I try open or get this txt file via url. However when I change the extension to css it opens fine. I have tried re-uploading and it makes no difference.
Try for yourself:
http://seanbingley.comyr.com/DrKruseSite/articles.txt
http://seanbingley.comyr.com/DrKruseSite/articles.css
Thanks in advance.
Edit:
I should probably state that I am not bothered about actually opening it in a browser. I need to read data from it for my website. However I cannot read the data if it keeps giving me 404.
Also when opening the txt file locally in a browser it works fine. It's just when I try to open the same file from the server it goes wrong.
You have to add a mime-type on IIS so it can read it.
Okay so the hosting site (000webhost) does not allow txt files on free accounts.
I have a website, let's say it's "http://www.jwilkthings.com/stuff"
I have a bunch of .txt files stored on this website, i.e. "http://www.jwilkthings.com/stuff/text1.txt"
What I'm wanting to do is find a way in iOS to download all of those text files without knowing what the document name is. I can already retrieve them manually as long as I have a file name, but I would rather just get all of them at once and put them in the documents directory if possible. I currently use FileZilla to upload all of the text files, so I can use FTP if needed.
The correct way to solve this problem is to not use FTP (riddled with performance and security issues), and to configure your web server to expose a table of contents directory listing that your client can parse.
But that's not an answer to your question.
If you really want your iOS app to speak FTP, take a look at the SimpleFTP sample project from Apple.
It's old, but I just got it to build on iOS 5. The ListController.m file has the code you're looking for.
I'm building a Reporting web application right now with MVC3 and I've come up to a couple problems.
My goal is to have it able to generate and view Crystal Reports, SSRS reports, and Excel documents.
Right now I'm working on the Excel segment and I'm running into more trouble than I thought I would. First off, when I link directly to the file, it either opens inside the browser or it downloads it from the server and if the user makes changes it doesn't actually save it to the true file on the server.
I've tried both linking to the file directly using Razor and a ViewModel with the path to the document as well as directing it to an action that returned a File.
I've also tried linking it to a shortcut to the actual file thinking that if I could open the shortcut it would open the file the way I wanted it to and unfortunately it didn't really open at all.
The users already have access to the files on the server through a network drive, so as of right now they can go into the server, open the excel document, edit and save it no problem. I want to duplicate this effect through a link. The program already has a file browser built, so I can browse between the files and make links to the reports.
Thanks in advance!
Since they are apparently on a network drive, you can just link to the files directly, relative to the user?
For example: a link to file://///SERVERNAME/folder/
I tested it between two computers on the network, and that seems to work. However, you still get a popup asking that you want to do with the file, open or save. (both in firefox and IE)
Note: Yes, that many slashes seem necessary, lol