Display raw XML from a URL in iframe - html

I have a XML in my webserver, when i try to open it in a browser it displays properly as raw xml, but the same when tried to display it in an iframe with its url, it displays as string and not as raw xml.
<iframe type="application/xml" src="http://www.w3schools.com/xml/simple.xml"></iframe>
http://jsfiddle.net/qvRzT/8/
Please note that I cannot load xml as a content in iframe because the xml is dynamically generated, I can only use its url to load in iframe.

In my scenario, the XML source from API response will be passed to HTML iframe tag source. Response content type text/plain will display plain XML content in html page without parsing
HTML
<iframe type="text/plain" data-bind="attr: {src: ('api/document/view?token=' + doc.downloadUrl)}"></iframe>
C# API response
public HttpResponseMessage View(string token)
{
HttpResponseMessage result = null;
var localFilePath ="D:\sample.xml";
var fileInfo = new System.IO.FileInfo(localFilePath);
result = Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK);
result.Content = new StreamContent(new FileStream(localFilePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read));
string FileMimeType = MimeMapping.GetMimeMapping(fileInfo.Name);
if (FileMimeType == "text/xml")
{
result.Content.Headers.ContentType = new
System.Net.Http.Headers.MediaTypeHeaderValue("text/plain");
}
else
result.Content.Headers.ContentType = new System.Net.Http.Headers.MediaTypeHeaderValue(FileMimeType);
result.Content.Headers.ContentDisposition = new
System.Net.Http.Headers.ContentDispositionHeaderValue("inline");
result.Content.Headers.ContentDisposition.FileName = fileInfo.Name;
return result;
}

This is because the browser sees the XML as the source of the page. So it will be marked up as an XML file. When the browser gets the iframe and loads the XML, it handles the source as HTML. (Even if no HTML tag is provided.)

Related

WinRT 8.1 WebView Content Type

I'm trying to load a webview using HttpRequestMessage in Windows Phone 8.1. The problem is that the Content-Type header is missing in the content headers when checked in Fiddler.
byte[] postData = GetWebviewPostDataBytes();
HttpRequestMessage request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, prepareUri(url));
var httpContent = new HttpBufferContent(postData.AsBuffer());
httpContent.Headers.Add("Content-Type", GetContentType());
request.Headers.Add("User-Agent", GetUserAgent());
request.Content = httpContent;
webView.NavigateWithHttpRequestMessage(request);
I found some links where this is posed as an internal bug. Can someone tell me a workaround to this?
The only solution I've found for this is to use a form to load your page.
I'm loading a local HTML page which I'm generating with my POST parameters. This page contains an hidden HTML form which I will submit once the page will be loaded.
The web page loading is then:
generate a local HTML page with a form and your parameters in hidden input fields
load this page in your webview
once the page is loaded, request a submit of the form using the webpage postContent() function
the webview will then navigate to the expected webpage with the content-type header set
This sample code is in WinJS but it can easily be transposed in C# since it is the same webview component.
var htmlContent = "<html><head><script type='text/javascript'>function postContent(){document.getElementById('postForm').submit();}</script></head><body><form id='postForm' action='{targetUrl}' method='post'>{inputFields}</form></body></html>";
var inputFields = "";
var iterator = payloadContent.first();
while(iterator.hasCurrent)
{
inputFields += "<input hidden='on' name='{n}' value='{v}'/>".replace("{n}", iterator.current.key).replace("{v}", iterator.current.value);
iterator.moveNext();
}
var htmlContent = htmlContent.replace("{targetUrl}", "YOUR URL HERE").replace("{inputFields}", inputFields);
this._webviewElement.navigateToString(htmlContent);
In the page loaded event you will then have to request the webview to execute the 'postContent()' javascript function to submit the form.
this._webviewElement.invokeScriptAsync("postContent");
Hope this helps.

image in local html couldn't be loaded into webview in windows8

I want to load local html file which in the local folder to the webview, but WebView doesn't support 'ms-aspx:///' protocal, I found a solution to read the html file to stream, and then convert it to string, using NavigateToString method to load the html, it works well. But, If there's an image in the html file, the image couldn't display, anyone can help?
I have solved.
Solution:
Convert the image file to base64 string
StorageFolder appFolder = ApplicationData.Current.LocalFolder;
StorageFile file = await appFolder.GetFileAsync("SplashScreen.png");
using (var stream = await file.OpenAsync(FileAccessMode.Read))
{
var reader = new DataReader(stream.GetInputStreamAt(0));
var bytes = new byte[stream.Size];
await reader.LoadAsync((uint)stream.Size);
reader.ReadBytes(bytes);
base64 = Convert.ToBase64String(bytes);
}
Use StringBuilder to create the html string
sb.Append("<html><head><title>Image test</title></head><body><p>This is a test app!</p><img src=\"data:image/png;base64,");
sb.Append(base64);
sb.Append("\" /></body></html>");
TestWebView.NavigateToString(sb.ToString());
Try using the ms-appx-web:// scheme instead of ms-aspx:// to load html from a WebView. If that doesn't work, you may need to use the ms-appdata:// scheme to access the image if it's in your application data folder.
Some further resources that might help:
How to load a local HTML-File into Webview
URI schemes
How to reference content

Load full Website WinRT

i want to load the Kepler reference Page with HttpClient like this:
string resourceAddress = _url;
HttpRequestMessage request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, resourceAddress);
HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient();
// Do not buffer the response:
HttpResponseMessage response = new HttpResponseMessage();
response = await httpClient.SendAsync(request,
HttpCompletionOption.ResponseContentRead);
using (Stream responseStream = await response.Content.ReadAsStreamAsync())
{
int read = 0;
byte[] responseBytes = new byte[(Int32)responseStream.Length];
do
{
read = await responseStream.ReadAsync(responseBytes, 0, responseBytes.Length);
} while (read != 0);
}
But i think, the Page won´t be loaded complete, like without all images and iframes etc...
Downloading just the first piece of html is rarely going to be enough to give you all the elements of the page, even if you parse it and include all the linked images etc. There is also css and javascript that will bring new content into view when you open a page in a browser and getting all this yourself is going to be an effort similar to implementing your own browser. Your best bet would be to either just load the page once in a WebView control and let it cache its content or use a WebView and scan the DOM to try to get all the elements. You could also write a web service that would download the page for you and just deliver you the whole package... assuming that the page doesn't require authentication.

IText html to pdf img

I am converting a html document to a pdf document and send it with java mail.
I want to insert an image on the top of the pdf document with:
<img alt="Logo" class="logo" src="https://www.somesite.org/images/logo.png"/>
But it isnt shown in the pdf document.
The link is working correctly, i tried it in my browser.
When i put in a absolute path to the image on my server he finds the path, but the email programm doesnt have access to our server of course, except of the link i want to use...
Isnt it possible to use such links?
EDIT:
final DocumentBuilderFactory documentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
documentBuilderFactory.setValidating(false);
DocumentBuilder builder = documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
builder.setEntityResolver(FSEntityResolver.instance());
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd.MM.yyyy");
String filename = wrapper.GetHtmlFilename(this.getClass().getName());
String html = wrapper.GetHtmlFile(filename, "UTF-8");
String result = wrapper.GetBody(html);
document = builder.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(result.getBytes("UTF-8")), "UTF-8");
baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
renderer = new ITextRenderer();
renderer.setDocument(document, null);
renderer.layout();
renderer.createPDF(baos);

HTML to PDF Solution (Handling Content, Headers and Footers)

I'm trying to create a "report" by generating a PDF based on HTML.
At first, I simply attempted to write raw encoded HTML to a document and then print that document using Javascript. However, this gave me little to no control involving headers and footers.
I attempted using thead and tfoot elements, which worked reasonably well in most browsers, however I wasn't able to get the formatting that I was looking for.
Currently - I am trying to work on a server-side solution using iTextSharp in MVC3, however I am a bit lost as to how to proceed, having not worked with iTextSharp much.
Input and Description of Output:
There will be 4 items used in creating the Report:
Report Content (which is currently encoded HTML, as I am unsure if decoding will change any formatting)
Report Title (will simply be the name of the PDF generated)
Report Header (will be displayed at the upper-left of each page)
Report Footer (will be displayed at the lower-left of each page)
Controller Action:
//This will be accessed by a jQuery Post
[HttpPost]
public FileStreamResult GeneratePDF(string id)
{
//Grab Report Item
ReportClass report = reportingAgent.GetReportById(id);
Document doc = new Document();
//Do I need to decode the HTML or is it possible to use the encoded HTML?
//Adding Headers / Footers
//Best method of returning the PDF?
}
iTextSharp cannot convert HTML to PDF. It's not what it was designed to do. It was designed to create PDF files from scratch, not converting between various formats into PDF. If you want to convert HTML into PDF you could for example use the the flying-saucer library which is based on iText. I have blogged about how this could be done in .NET using IKVM.NET Bytecode Compiler (ikvmc.exe).
So your controller action might look something along the lines of:
[HttpPost]
public FileStreamResult GeneratePDF(string id)
{
ReportClass report = reportingAgent.GetReportById(id);
return PdfResult(report.Html);
}
where PdfResult could be a custom action result taking the raw HTML and outputting the PDF into the response stream:
public class PdfResult : ActionResult
{
private readonly string _html;
public PdfResult(string html)
{
_html = html;
}
public override void ExecuteResult(ControllerContext context)
{
var response = context.HttpContext.Response;
response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
var builder = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
using (var bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(_html)))
using (var bao = new ByteArrayOutputStream())
{
var doc = builder.parse(bais);
var renderer = new ITextRenderer();
renderer.setDocument(doc, null);
renderer.layout();
renderer.createPDF(bao);
var buffer = bao.toByteArray();
response.OutputStream.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
}
}
}