File Download Question

[astahl]

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

[Bruce]

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

[astahl]

Thanks Bruce