Scheduled Download

[EricN]

Re: Scheduled Download

Understood. Thanks

[NoeticCC]

Re: Scheduled Download

I've tried Windows Task Manager but it doesn't seem to like .a5w pages.

Why not use cURL (free) and run that from a batch script, calling an a5w page on your web server? That way what kind of pages the task manager likes or doesn't like will not matter :) (You might have to append ?A5W_Sess_ID=somerandomstring to the URL for this to work)

PS: oops, too late!

[EricN]

Re: Scheduled Download

I created a temporary method.
I created a batch file called test.bat. In it I have START http:\\myservername\testDay.a5w

In windows task manager I set up a daily schedule to run the test.bat

This opens a browser and successfully runs the script. But I believe Steve Wood stated the browser does not close. This is correct.

It does what I want it to do:
- automatically runs my script at a designated time and day
but:
- browser does not close
- need to add security

I'm not using CRON but will. nnCRON was designed to work in windows environment.

When I have the time, I will revisit the curl method and place a curl line to replace the START method in my batch file.

[NoeticCC]

Re: Scheduled Download

Security is easy - just make sure the page you call only allows requests from the IP of the server you run this from :)

In our case, all internal IP addresses start with 192.9.200. so:

'IP CHECK
Dim IpString as c
IpString = Request.Remote_Addr

If smatch(IpString,"192.9.200.*") = .f. then
    end
end if

If you use cURL you can stick to task manager if you like, I run CRON jobs from WatchDirectory (well it's a cheat, the task runs once a day and is triggered if a file in a certain directory is older than 30 minutes - since the file is never deleted it always runs once a day :) ), via a .bat file, as well as several more complex file handling and image conversion scripts also triggered from WatchDirectory.

[EricN]

Re: Scheduled Download

Hi Andrea,
So you place the code you mentioned above in the a5w page you wish to have automatically run?
Thanks. That will work.

[NoeticCC]

Re: Scheduled Download

Hi Andrea,
So you place the code you mentioned above in the a5w page you wish to have automatically run?
Thanks. That will work.

Yes, if you're likely to use it in serveral pages it might be an idea to create an a5w file with just that code in it, surrounded by <%a5 and %>, and then at the top of each a5w page you intend to call ONLY internally, add:

<%a5
a5w_include("nameofincludefile.a5w")
%>

[NoeticCC]

Re: Scheduled Download

Also check this thread on the WatchDirectory forum about scheduling tasks in case you're interested in the other features: http://www.watchdirectory.net/cgi-bi...um=1217934286/

[EricN]

Re: Scheduled Download

Hello Andrea,
Just wanted to state that your posts #19 & #21 worked great!
Will revisit using cURL sometime later.
Thanks for your help!