Open a file

shaik_zakariah

Hi,

Is there a way of opening a file from LL without having to download it to my web server?

Regards

Zak

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sgrasley

Hi, Zak.

I'm afraid I don't understand your question. Could you elaborate on what you're trying to accomplish?

Thanks,

Scott

shaik_zakariah

Hi Scot,

We are connecting to Enterprise Server via the Web Services, searching for and retrieving documents to a web server using the Search Web services. We then provide the files to the clients browser in the form of an HREF, which the user clicks and the doc opens.

Thats all working fine however, can I rather open a file directly of livelink, like providing an authenticated link to it, rather than downloading the file to my web server?

thanks

Zak

Kyle_Swidrovich

Hi Zak,

If an SSO solution is used to authenticate, a download link to a particular item is seamless.

However, if you have not deployed an SSO solution, you need to authenticate at least once in your browser to establish a login cookie.

There is a way to manufacture a login URL with an embedded username/password that directs the user to the document download URL, however, that would only work in an anonymous environment, since the anonymous user's username and password would be visible in the URL.

Example:
?func=ll.login&username=anonymous&password=mypassword&NextURL=<URLencodeddownloadURL>

Cheers,
Kyle

shaik_zakariah

Hi Kyle,

thanks, that worked brilliantly. Can you elaborate when you say anonymous access?

Thanks

Zak

Kyle_Swidrovich

I meant that you typically would not want to expose a particular user's password publicly in a URL as it could be seen by anyone looking at the monitor or looking at the user's browser history.

I would expect that this would only be acceptable in scenarios where a general "anonymous" account is used for open public systems where permissions aren't really an issue.