Re: [web2py] Re: How to intercept download request

2014-05-23 Thread Niphlod
because there's not native "event" on a completed download nor a "callback" to use in ANY browser. Simply put, there aren't tools in the HTML word to report back a finished download. On Friday, May 23, 2014 8:33:32 AM UTC+2, Mandar Vaze wrote: > > Derek, > > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 1:29 AM, Der

Re: [web2py] Re: How to intercept download request

2014-05-22 Thread Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे
Derek, On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 1:29 AM, Derek wrote: > no, i don't see how you could. web2py leaves it up to the webserver to > send the file. you'd need to modify the webserver, but since the webserver > is handed off the path of the file then you have no way of raising an > error, unless you w

Re: [web2py] Re: How to intercept download request

2014-05-22 Thread Derek
no, i don't see how you could. web2py leaves it up to the webserver to send the file. you'd need to modify the webserver, but since the webserver is handed off the path of the file then you have no way of raising an error, unless you want transfers to block the web2py process... On Thursday, Ma

Re: [web2py] Re: How to intercept download request

2014-05-22 Thread Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे
Sorry for the delayed response. On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Niphlod wrote: > let's ask another question then. Can you post a link generated by your app > that "downloads" something ? just the part after the domain is enough. > This question definitely helped. Turns out "download" is requ

[web2py] Re: How to intercept download request

2014-05-13 Thread Niphlod
let's ask another question then. Can you post a link generated by your app that "downloads" something ? just the part after the domain is enough. On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 8:10:31 AM UTC+2, Mandar Vaze wrote: > > I don't think the debugger is the problem (yet) > If I put a "print" statement befo

[web2py] Re: How to intercept download request

2014-05-13 Thread Mandar Vaze
I don't think the debugger is the problem (yet) If I put a "print" statement before "return response.download(request, db)" in default/download - that also doesn't work (Nothing gets printed on web2py console) To clarify my question further : 1. Is it possible to intercept the download() call ?

[web2py] Re: How to intercept download request

2014-05-13 Thread Niphlod
don't know if it's a problem with the debugger but if you're using only on download() function all your "inspection" MUST be done in that function ^_^ On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 1:22:25 PM UTC+2, Mandar Vaze wrote: > > I want to audit the downloads - things like "which file was downloaded, by > wh