I Wonder whether I can use pdf Source[as hyperlink] as a file path in system related to script's running directory.
part of code is.
pdf
I am generating this HTML using CGI Scripting in C. and my pdfs are located in ../pdfs/sample.pdf related to my running directory of script. And by pdf source means I want to show the pdf sample.pdf upon clicking pdf as in above sample code.
A browser does not care or know how a resource is generated. You can generate it with C via CGI, you can have the server just hand over a static file. There is no difference as far as the browser is concerned, it made an HTTP request and received an HTTP response.
The rules for resolving a relative URI in an HTML document are the same. The browser compares it to the base URI (which is either specified in <base> or is the URI of the document containing the link).
If that resolves to a URI that the server will serve a PDF up for, then it will work.
Since URIs don't always map directly onto file systems, it isn't possible to say if this will work in your situation (as your question only talks about file systems). If this was on one of the servers that I have CGI programmes executing on then it wouldn't work — since I keep them in a cgi-bin that isn't a subdirectory of the webroot, so the pdfs wouldn't be accessible over HTTP at all. Your server may be configured differently.
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I'm developing a node-red application right now that uses a html response. The html uses google maps, visual indicators and websockets. It is very hard to debug this system through node-red's little html editor. Is there a way to edit the html file through any normal editor (e.g. vs code) and then deploy the application again to see the effect ?
One solution that came to my mind was to read from an external file using the file node and return it as html, put I don't know if that works. Is there a better way ?
You can create and edit static resources (html/css files etc) however you'd like and then serve them from Node-RED.
You have two options for serving static content:
create corresponding HTTP In -> File In -> HTTP Response flows for each file you want to serve
or use the httpStatic property in your settings.js file to identify a directory whose content should be automatically served by the runtime.
I am using below code to display pdf file in HTML
<object data="data/file.pdf" type="application/pdf" width="300" height="200">
test.pdf
</object>
But In above code we have to specify path name and folder name so it is not so secure. Crawler can find this path, so using some algorithms(robot) it is very easy to download other file those are stored in that folder.
How to secure this, is there any option to prevent this from robots?.
You may do the following:
Password protect the page (with the server-side code).
Generate unique links like (/getpdf/some_random_string_or_md5_hash_of_random_string.pdf) for every PDF file (using server-side code) that will a) check for the current time and the validity of the random name generated (if it has expired or not) then b) will redirect to the source files (not really hiding the source because of the redirection) to be displayed or stream the PDF file content (this is more secure though could seriously add the load to the server).
Finally add robots.txt to the folder and hope that crawlers will follow restrictions it sets.
If the other files in the directory are not to be downloaded, ever, they shouldn't be in a directory that is available to the http server. You can use directory permissions in your http server (eg., config directives and .htaccess in Apache) to control access to directories. Only configure access for directories you need to expose to the web, and only store files in them that you want the web to access.
If you want to avoid including a path in the HTML, you will need to write some dynamic code (eg, php, asp, or any number of server-side options). Your code on the server would need to handle the request for the file and return the file's content manually.
I have a basic webpage built, and a Swagger document JSON file of my API. I am unsure of how to actually add the data from the document to the website so that it can be browsed.
I want to build hosted documentation for the API.
This is the example given by Swagger: http://petstore.swagger.wordnik.com/#!/pet/addPet
Do I just download Swagger UI and use it in conjunction with the JSON file.
But I am unsure on to achieve this. Any advice on how to go about creating something like this would be very helpful.
Swagger-ui is basically a set of static files you can host on your server to display your API.
Unless you may any major changes, you just need to copy the contents of the /dist folder to your server and host it as part of your application (or static website, doesn't matter).
The SwaggerUi object can be customized to your needs, including the URL of the spec you're hosting.
Keep in mind that if you don't host the ui and spec on the same server, (that is, same host and same port), you need to enable CORS.
Let's say I have a URL http://example.com/path/to/document.html
That's the html document, the file, that has no external css or js.
If I open it in Google Chrome and save it with Ctrl+S locally, the content is changed. The content of that html file starts with <!-- saved from url= which is not I want at all. I need to get the exact html document, even spaces count.
The second option is to copy it with Ctrl+U (View Source), Select All and paste it into new document, save it and rename it. This is better, however spaces, tabs and end of file will be different depending on what operation system I'm using.
I need the exact copy of that html file - byte to byte.
How to make it?
This is a practical question as I need slightly modify that document.
I'm sorry there is no any source code in my question, but this question is about web developing.
Any ideas?
Thank you.
P.S. Of course that document could be generated by php or whatever, the part of the code can be even extracted from the db, but not in my case. I know that's a plain file.
I'd delete the comment after saving from Chrome, use wget in a linux environment, or open the page as an InputStream in Java. Do all three, run a diff, and if two arrived identical assume that's the file on the server.
Why do you need a byte-for-byte copy of the file on the server anyway, and why can't you ftp the file? There is always the chance that the server will serve different html files depending on your user-agent, but there are other tools which may be better than Chrome for getting your copy and many can spoof a user-agent as well.
I've been given the task of rendering an xml file via xsl as html. This means it appears as /.../index.xml in the URL.
However, the task requests that the xml file renders in the URL at /.../index.html.
Currently it renders as index.xml not .html - how do I achieve this?
Any ideas/resources would be great, thanks.
One simple way to satisfy the requirement (there are others, no doubt) is to configure your server to redirect index.html to index.xml. How you do that depends on which Web server you are using; consult the documentation for your server. If you're using Apache, you will want to read up on .htaccess files and redirection.