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Title: File Download Question
Post by: astahl on November 21, 2014, 05:23:26 AM

Hi,

I have a NetWebPage that is being called from an outside source to download a user specific file. If the file was not created for them how can I return back to them a message like "File not available, try later"?

Ashley

Title: Re: File Download Question
Post by: Bruce on November 25, 2014, 11:29:31 PM

Hi Ashley,

in the page you can do a

p_web.SendError('503','File Not yet available','the file is not available yet, try again later')

and then do a return.

the exact code to use is somewhat up to you - there's no HTML reply code that matches this situation exactly - but there's a discussion on codes here;

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9794696/best-http-status-code-in-rest-api-for-not-ready-yet-try-again-later

Of course, you could just returna page that says "File is not yet ready".

cheers
Bruce

Title: Re: File Download Question
Post by: astahl on December 03, 2014, 09:46:59 AM

Thanks Bruce