output text file with ASP ? Extra headers

[Oleg Ogurok]

Hi all,

On my web page, I have a <OBJECT DATA="mydatafile.ica" ...> which loads
Citrix ICA web client.
The problem is that I want to generate the mydatafile.ica on the fly (e.g.
based on session variables) and pass it to the user. So I was thinking of
doing it this way:

<OBJECT DATA="datafilegen.asp" ...>

Now I need to write a datafilegen.asp ASP page that outputs a plain text
file.
I tried to set Response.ContentType = "text/plain"
However, when I telnet to my server on port 80 to see what actually gets
output, I see these headers:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 17:04:39 GMT
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 391
Content-Type: text/plain
Set-Cookie: [SNIPPED BY ME]; path=/
Cache-control: private

If I try the same with a text file, I just get the file with no headers
(which is what I need)
Is there a way to turn these headers off? Do I have to set some ASP variable
for that?

-Oleg.

[Rob Greene]

Greetings Oleg:

I know nothing of Citrix, but if it's a text file you want to created, you could try something like this:

Sub CreateAfile
Dim fso, MyFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set MyFile = fso.CreateTextFile("c:\PrivateFolder\testfile.txt" , True)
MyFile.WriteLine("This is a test.")
MyFile.Close
End Sub

You will have to make sure the IIS user has rights to write into the folder you create this file.

-rwg
This is what I think, not necessarily what is accurate!

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| Hi all,
|
| On my web page, I have a <OBJECT DATA="mydatafile.ica" ...> which loads
| Citrix ICA web client.
| The problem is that I want to generate the mydatafile.ica on the fly (e.g.
| based on session variables) and pass it to the user. So I was thinking of
| doing it this way:
|
| <OBJECT DATA="datafilegen.asp" ...>
|
| Now I need to write a datafilegen.asp ASP page that outputs a plain text
| file.
| I tried to set Response.ContentType = "text/plain"
| However, when I telnet to my server on port 80 to see what actually gets
| output, I see these headers:
|
| HTTP/1.1 200 OK
| Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
| Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 17:04:39 GMT
| X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
| Connection: Keep-Alive
| Content-Length: 391
| Content-Type: text/plain
| Set-Cookie: [SNIPPED BY ME]; path=/
| Cache-control: private
|
| If I try the same with a text file, I just get the file with no headers
| (which is what I need)
| Is there a way to turn these headers off? Do I have to set some ASP variable
| for that?
|
| -Oleg.
|
|
|

[Oleg Ogurok]

Thanks Rob. However, I'm trying the opposite, i.e. not to create a text file
on the filesystem but rather generate it in memory, output it to the client
and then discard it.

There is Response.AddHeader but I can't find any method to clear all
headers.

Thanks anyway.
-O
"Rob Greene" <a-****@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ab**************@cpmsftngxa06.phx.gbl...

Greetings Oleg:

I know nothing of Citrix, but if it's a text file you want to created, you could try something like this:
Sub CreateAfile
Dim fso, MyFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set MyFile = fso.CreateTextFile("c:\PrivateFolder\testfile.txt" , True)
MyFile.WriteLine("This is a test.")
MyFile.Close
End Sub

You will have to make sure the IIS user has rights to write into the folder you create this file.
-rwg
This is what I think, not necessarily what is accurate!

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| From: "Oleg Ogurok" <ol**@ogurok.com.ihatespammers.ireallydo.co>
| Newsgroups: microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general
| Subject: output text file with ASP ? Extra headers
| Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 12:08:51 -0500
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|
| Hi all,
|
| On my web page, I have a <OBJECT DATA="mydatafile.ica" ...> which loads
| Citrix ICA web client.
| The problem is that I want to generate the mydatafile.ica on the fly (e.g. | based on session variables) and pass it to the user. So I was thinking of | doing it this way:
|
| <OBJECT DATA="datafilegen.asp" ...>
|
| Now I need to write a datafilegen.asp ASP page that outputs a plain text
| file.
| I tried to set Response.ContentType = "text/plain"
| However, when I telnet to my server on port 80 to see what actually gets
| output, I see these headers:
|
| HTTP/1.1 200 OK
| Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
| Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 17:04:39 GMT
| X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
| Connection: Keep-Alive
| Content-Length: 391
| Content-Type: text/plain
| Set-Cookie: [SNIPPED BY ME]; path=/
| Cache-control: private
|
| If I try the same with a text file, I just get the file with no headers
| (which is what I need)
| Is there a way to turn these headers off? Do I have to set some ASP variable | for that?
|
| -Oleg.
|
|
|