Downloading files from ASP Page - ASP / Active Server Pages

JP SIngh

Can someone please help me with a file download query. I have the following
code which works fine.

The only change I want to make is in the line objStream.loadfromfile
server.mappath("/images/"&strFile)

It is using a folder on the IIS Server to store the files.

Does anyone know how I can change the path speficied in the LoadFromFile to
a UNC path name i.e. \\myserver\images

This is an internal application and the server hosting the application is
too small to hold the amount of data hence a new server has been setup to
store files but I am unable to download it from the server.
<body>
Here is the code:
Make your links like this
<a href="download.asp?doc=document1.doc"Word Document
</body>

Code for download.asp

<%
strFile=request.querystring("doc")
const adTypeBinary = 1
response.clear
response.addheader "content-disposition","attachment; filename=" &strFile
set objStream = server.createObject("adodb.stream")
objStream.type = adTypeBinary
objStream.open
'This is signifying that the doc are in a folder called WordDocs
objStream.loadfromfile server.mappath("/images/"&strFile)
response.binarywrite objStream.Read
objStream.close: set objStream = nothing
%>

Sep 18 '06 #1

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mike.biang

JP,
If the files will always be located on the UNC share \\myserver\images,
you can simply hardcode the path in the loadfromfile call.

For example:
objStream.loadfromfile "\\myserver\images\" & strFile
If you know the full path to the file, there is no need for the
Server.MapPath call.

Mike Biang
Cramer Development
mi********@gmail.com

JP SIngh wrote:

Can someone please help me with a file download query. I have the following
code which works fine.

The only change I want to make is in the line objStream.loadfromfile
server.mappath("/images/"&strFile)

It is using a folder on the IIS Server to store the files.

Does anyone know how I can change the path speficied in the LoadFromFile to
a UNC path name i.e. \\myserver\images

This is an internal application and the server hosting the application is
too small to hold the amount of data hence a new server has been setup to
store files but I am unable to download it from the server.
<body>
Here is the code:
Make your links like this
<a href="download.asp?doc=document1.doc"Word Document
</body>

Code for download.asp

<%
strFile=request.querystring("doc")
const adTypeBinary = 1
response.clear
response.addheader "content-disposition","attachment; filename=" &strFile
set objStream = server.createObject("adodb.stream")
objStream.type = adTypeBinary
objStream.open
'This is signifying that the doc are in a folder called WordDocs
objStream.loadfromfile server.mappath("/images/"&strFile)
response.binarywrite objStream.Read
objStream.close: set objStream = nothing
%>

Sep 18 '06 #2

Jason Simmons

if all this is is a link to download a file, why are you doing all the
unnecessray scripting?
a simple HTML HREF tag would work fine
"JP SIngh" <no**@none.comwrote in message
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Can someone please help me with a file download query. I have the
following code which works fine.

The only change I want to make is in the line objStream.loadfromfile
server.mappath("/images/"&strFile)

It is using a folder on the IIS Server to store the files.

Does anyone know how I can change the path speficied in the LoadFromFile
to a UNC path name i.e. \\myserver\images

This is an internal application and the server hosting the application is
too small to hold the amount of data hence a new server has been setup to
store files but I am unable to download it from the server.
<body>
Here is the code:
Make your links like this
<a href="download.asp?doc=document1.doc"Word Document
</body>

Code for download.asp

<%
strFile=request.querystring("doc")
const adTypeBinary = 1
response.clear
response.addheader "content-disposition","attachment; filename=" &strFile
set objStream = server.createObject("adodb.stream")
objStream.type = adTypeBinary
objStream.open
'This is signifying that the doc are in a folder called WordDocs
objStream.loadfromfile server.mappath("/images/"&strFile)
response.binarywrite objStream.Read
objStream.close: set objStream = nothing
%>

Sep 18 '06 #3

John

Probably because he wants the Open|Save dialog box to pop-up rather than allowing the browser to automatically open the file... I am trying to do the same thing...

Oct 13 '06 #4

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