Re: Android & URLEncode & libUrlDownloadToFile

[Alex Tweedly]

I don't have Android, so can't help with that part.

But just on principle, I wouldn't use URLs that encode my userid / 
password in a way that could reveal them and hence allow someone 
unlimited access to my site / account.

So I'd access the files by a URL more like

put 
"http://url.com/cgi-bin/get_protected_file.lc?id=ID&pw=PWD&filename=dog.jpg"; 
into tPath

and write a simple LC script to check for "ID / PWD"  - but I'd make 
them different from the account / password that can be used for login 
and everything else; so if someone does snoop your URL traffic they can 
get read-only access to your protected files but can't change them, 
delete them or anything else.

-- Alex.



On 27/07/2012 06:56, Nicolas Cueto wrote:
Hello.

On the desktop, this works:

put "http://ID:p...@url.com/cgi-bin/dog.jpg"; into tPath
set the filename of image "img" to tPath

On Android, it does not. Nor does this:

put "http://ID:p...@url.com/cgi-bin/dog.jpg"; into tPath
put urlEncode(tPath) into tPath
set the filename of image "img" to tPath


So... how do I get an Android stack to access online files that are in
a protected directory?



What I'm actually after is more complicated.  Namely, getting my
Android stack to download jpg and mp3 files from a protected directory
on my OnRev account into a directory other than those specified by
specialFolderPath. But, after having tried now for many many hours,
decided instead to break down the larger problem into smaller ones.
For example, the scripts above.



A solution to that smaller problem, or, better yet, to the overall
larger problem, would both be appreciated.


Thanks.

--
Nicolas Cueto

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