I am trying to open local hard drive files inside AS3. I'm getting a security error with this code:
var soundFile:URLRequest = new URLRequest("c:\slushy.mp3");
Is it possible to URLload an absolute path on the hard drive?
Edit: so this appears to be a sandboxing issue. Drat. Is it possible to load the local file via PHP and send to flash?
PHP is a server language, so the final protocol is http.
The you must to acces by file:/// to the local file, but if you want to share the resources over Internet, you must upload your files to folder in the root of site.
By example: http://www.mysite.com/music
Then you can load the file:
var soundFile:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.mysite.com/music/slushy.mp3");
Requisite: you must to create the directory "music" in server web application directory and upload the file.
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Is it possible to automatically load index.html on a system folder without using XAMPP, IIS or similar?
It is for a school project and I can't use them, so I have to open the file putting the path (C:/...) into the address bar.
I know I could use .htaccess, but I don't know what to write and if it gets read without any web server solutions!
This can get a little tricky... but is possible without any "administrator" privileges, nor without installing anything.
Download Python 3.8.2 - Windows x86-64 embeddable zip file
Create a folder on "python" on the c:\
Extract the "Zip" file into this folder
Change the folder name from "python-3.8.2-embed-amd64" to "python_src"
Create a folder named "python_html"
The folder structure should look like:
c:\python\
c:\python\python_src\
c:\python\python_html\
Create a file named "webserver.py" in the "c:\python\python_html" folder
Place the following code into that file:
#webserver.py
import http.server
import socketserver
PORT = 80
Handler = http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
with socketserver.TCPServer(("", PORT), Handler) as httpd:
print("serving at port", PORT)
httpd.serve_forever()
Save and close the file
Create index.html file in the "python_html" folder and place the following code in that file:
<html>
<head>
<title>Web Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Python Web Server File</h1>
<p>Congratulations! The HTTP Server is working!</p>
</body>
</html>
Open the "Command Prompt" and type the following commands
cd\
cd python\python_html\
c:\python\python_src\python ./webserver.py
Open a web browser and navigate to "http://localhost/"
Once you have confirmed this works, you can build an entire website within that "python_html" folder. As long as you don't close the command prompt it will continue acting as a "Web Server".
I know I could use .htaccess
.htaccess is an Apache (Web Server) config file, so unless you have Apache installed (ie. the "A" in XAMPP) then you can't use that. (If .htaccess was available then index.html would likely load automatically anyway.)
On Apache, being able to load index.html by default when requesting a directory requires mod_dir (an Apache module). In this case, mod_dir issues an internal subrequest for the DirectoryIndex - this all requires additional processes.
I can't install extensions... I have to open the file on my school computer
If you can't install anything then you can't do this I'm afraid. You appear to be limited to direct file requests.
When using a webserver (such as Apache or IIS) then you have a differentiation between a URL and a filesystem path. The webserver maps the URL to a filesystem path. Without a webserver you don't have that abstraction.
There are lighter webservers, other than Apache and IIS, but you need to install something extra.
Just give your file(s) meaningful names (ie. not index.html) and use those instead? eg. fox-project.html
How to avoid file download, if the file is already present in my local.
My Code:
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a href="file:///C:/Users/t_smrithik/Desktop/DNS.cap">DNS.cap
I do not want to download this file again. I just want to open it. The file gets downloaded to a temp folder and then the Wireshark app(app used to open cap files) loads it.
Javascript cannot access the filesystem and check for existence. The only interaction with the filesystem is with loading js files and images (png/gif/etc).
Javascript is not the task for this
I'm trying to make a UWP file browser app that show all the files from http://192.168.201.254/media/, to do that I need to get all the file paths under http://192.168.201.254/media/, is there a way to do it?
Clients can only request known file URLs via HTTP.
The server can be configured to spit out an HTML file list as default page for the directory and you can process that on the client side.
Is it possible to open an sqlite file over http? I only need to read the db, and was hoping I could do something like:
var dbFile:File = new File("http://10.1.1.50/project/db.sqlite");
sqlConnection.open(dbFile);
Error #3125: Unable to open the database file.', details:'Connection closed.', operation:'open', detailID:'1001'
My situation calls for several apps compiled for various devices to share this file, which is served locally via wamp.
Zip your sqlite file from db.sqlite to db.zip. Load this zip file in flex using URLLoader and unzip it back in flex.
If not, you can also rename the file's extension to .xml, load it using httpservice or urlloader and once you get the result, you can rename the file's name back to .sqlite and start querying the file and it will work just fine.
There is no way you can achieve this over HTTP.
SqLite is a file and not a service/process that may be accessible via any port.
The best case scenario is when you have network access to the computer where the sqlite file is stored, like:
\\myserver\databases\mysqlitefile.db
...but this may work only on windows :(
You can adapt your code to use modsqlite http://modsqlite.sourceforge.net/#using
there's an apache module to allow remote sqlite access via http.
http://modsqlite.sourceforge.net/
I was wondering if it would be possible to write a file, not to the local system, but to a connected server or other network path.
Would I have to use an external interface for this or can I entrust this to the AIR framework?
I'm pretty sure that AIR has certain security precautions to prevent this.
What kind of network path? SMB, FTP, HTTP, WebDav, .. ?
If it's mounted on your local PC, then you should be able to write to it just like writing to any other drive or filesystem.
to write a new file to a folder on a networked drive in OSX:
var targetDir:File = new File("/Volumes/Data/SomeFolder");
targetDir.createDirectory(); // ensure directory exists, create if not
var targetFile:File = targetDir.resolvePath("newFile.ext");
var fileStream:FileStream = new FileStream();
try {
fileStream.open(targetFile, FileMode.WRITE);
fileStream.writeBytes(byteArray); // or what/however you want to write
fileStream.close();
} catch (e:Error) {
trace(e);
}
i assume for Windows you would just swap the network drive path in the first line. you should not specify a protocol (e.g. file://, smb://, etc); the format of the parameter for the File constructor is the native path (as it would appear in a terminal / command shell).
to get the path in OSX, use the Finder to navigate to the target networked folder. begin dragging the folder somewhere else, hit apple+space to open Spotlight, and continue dragging the folder into Spotlight. alternately, open a Terminal window and drag the folder into the Terminal window.