I am accessing XML files in a sub-directory DataXML. In JavaScript I am addressing them like this:
"../DataXML/fileName.xml"
and all is fine.
To avoid users seeing my data files I have moved them (the files not the users!) into the ASP.NET folder, App_Data, and now get an error message when I use the form
"../App_Data/fileName.xml" . I get the following message when I execute:
"Failed to load data from App_Data/fileName.xml. Forbidden."
I am using the Javascript library, Simile Timeline. Does your reply mean that I have to copy my XML file from App_Data into an available directory for processing by Simile, and delete it when unloading the page?
if you want to expose files to the browser then it's a nogo to put them in the App_Data as it's protected to be downloaded from another source.
What you can do however is to make a Web API that reads out the xml file, from the App_Data, and sends out the needed information to the widget. I didn't work with the widget myself yet but I noticed some ajax part in it so you could call your Web API with
that likely.
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Problem with files in App_Data
Jul 25, 2014 01:43 AM|zermattbs|LINK
I am accessing XML files in a sub-directory DataXML. In JavaScript I am addressing them like this:
"../DataXML/fileName.xml"
and all is fine.
To avoid users seeing my data files I have moved them (the files not the users!) into the ASP.NET folder, App_Data, and now get an error message when I use the form
"../App_Data/fileName.xml" . I get the following message when I execute:
"Failed to load data from App_Data/fileName.xml. Forbidden."
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Re: Problem with files in App_Data
Jul 25, 2014 01:53 AM|XIII|LINK
Hi,
you can't expose these files to the browser but server side you should be able to get to them like this:
string path = HttpContext.Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/filename.xml");In the past you had to also add Current to that line like HttpContext.Current....
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Re: Problem with files in App_Data
Jul 25, 2014 07:34 PM|zermattbs|LINK
FYI I had to add the "Current".
I am using the Javascript library, Simile Timeline. Does your reply mean that I have to copy my XML file from App_Data into an available directory for processing by Simile, and delete it when unloading the page?
Or is there a better way?
Or have I completely misunderstood??
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Re: Problem with files in App_Data
Jul 26, 2014 06:14 AM|XIII|LINK
Hi,
if you want to expose files to the browser then it's a nogo to put them in the App_Data as it's protected to be downloaded from another source.
What you can do however is to make a Web API that reads out the xml file, from the App_Data, and sends out the needed information to the widget. I didn't work with the widget myself yet but I noticed some ajax part in it so you could call your Web API with that likely.
Update: been searching quickly in the documentation and there's a loadJSON function on the Timeline which you could likely use to call your Web API: http://simile-widgets.org/wiki/Timeline_LoadEventsDynamically
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