open online text file

[vdjan]

Hi,

I would like to open a text file and read it line per line.
The file is however online, like http://www.mysite.com/thisfile.txt
How do I do this using asp.net with vbscript?

thx,

Jan

[vdjan]

Hmm.. is this so difficult? :s
I would really appreciate if someone could helpme out here.
I'm trying to check if our ftp servers have downloaded the latest virus engines. Therefor I need to compare versionnbr in an ini file with a versionnbr in another ini file. The first ini file is available from the suppliers http site, so that's why I would like to know how I could read the contents of the file in my aspx page.

[cykophysh]

Check out this article
http://threenineconsulting.com/forum/blogs/cykophysh/archive/2006/11/24/Write-and-Read-a-Text-File-In-C_2300_.aspx

You may need to use the HttpRequest and HttpRespond object to get the Text file first. I am not sure if you may even be able to try opening the text file via Http , give it a try

[vdjan]

Thanks for the reply.
The article is however about local files, I tried using this method for the 'online' files, but it doesn't work. :(

[Charu0306]

You'll have to download the file and parse it locally in some temp dir. and then delete ti after use.

[Charu0306]

Example:


Dim root As String = "C:\temp\"
Dim filepath As String = Request.Params("file")
If Not filepath Is Nothing Then
If File.Exists(filepath) And filepath.StartsWith(root) Then
Dim filename As String = Path.GetFileName(filepath)
Response.Clear()
Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream"
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", _
"attachment; filename=""" & filename & """")
Response.Flush()
Response.WriteFile(filepath)
End If
End If


The request.params argument contains your URL with the file name included in it. You just need to permissions to access that file.

[vdjan]

Doesn't do the trick... :(
Why this => If File.Exists(filepath) And filepath.StartsWith(root) Then
filepath is my URL, right?
How could it start with the local path?

If I could read the content of the file I would be more then happy.

ex: "http://www.sybari.com/scan_engine_updates/intel/cairis/update.ini"