MoshiachNow wrote:
I need to link from within the HTML into a certain file which is WITHIN
a zip file (without unzipping the zip).
Is it doable ?
Yes it's do-able, but it's far from trivial if you want to do it right.
I assume your problem is some massive archive of zip files, with a need
to address things within them. The neat way to do this is to design
yourself a mini-protocol based on the interpretation of HTTP URLs in a
defined manner (this could be as simple as two HTTP GET query
parameters called "wherethearchiveis" and "wherethefileisinsideit", or
as complex as a local "handle" server (look it up)). Then you write
some nice, neat server-side code that understands this protocol and can
return the files requested. With this new and more powerful (but still
completely generic) toolbox, you can write an application that
understands about a "log" file, structure of date-embedded names etc.
Choosing the right server-side language will make this easy (Java and
Python both have good Zip libraries, I don't know about PHP)
This is NOT just a "HTML programming" problem. If you treat it as one,
you'll find yourself building some vast pile of crappy JavaScript and
getting yourself posted to
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