I would like to run a request on my WebFOCUS server and hold the output on the local workstation.

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM SALES BY COUNTRY
ON TABLE PCHOLD AS H001 FORMAT TAB
END

When I run this request, I get a Windows dialog box "File Download - Security Warning" with this message: "Do you want to save this file? Name: ibiweb, Type: Unknown File Type".

I would like the file name to be H001 with an extension of .tab and have the Windows dialog box specify that.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks.

I have seen this technique used. It may do the trick for you.

-SET &RADDR='Computer_pc_address';
-SET &A='\\' || &RADDR || '\' || 'C';
-SET &E='\bose.htm';
FILEDEF BOSE DISK &A&E
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT COUNTRY
ON TABLE HOLD AS BOSEFORMAT HTML
END

Define RADDR in ibicommd.wfs to &REMOTE_ADDR.

Rich

Rich,

Thanks - that's a very intriguing solution, unfortunately, since the request is made from a web browser URL on the UNIX server I cannot determine the name of the PC that the request was made from.

Thanks.

-SET &RADDR=&REMOTE_ADDR;
The &REMOTE_ADDR should be a browser variable of the pc submitting the request that should get picked up if it's passed in the client.

Right! Thanks.

Francis,
Did you get this to work? If so, would you please post your code -- I have end-users who need to access their hold files and at this point I have to ftp them to my hard drive and e-mail them to the users.

Thanks,

Linda Frerker

Not exactly.

To activate what was discussed, this is what you do:

- Open the WebFOCUS Administration Console in a web browser window

Http://server-name/ibi_html/wfconsole.htm

- Login
- Click on Configuration
- CLick on Custom Settings
- Add the following line to the end of the text in the Custom Settings window:

<SET> REMOTE_ADDR = &REMOTE_ADDR (pass)

- Click Save to save your changes
- Click Logout

You should now have a Dialog Manager variable called &REMOTE_ADDR available every time a piece of WF code is run.

For some reason this does not work on my Dev server where the WF client is CGI. On my local server where the WF client is WFServlet, the

<SET> REMOTE_ADDR

command works correctly.

Setting the REMOTE_ADDR as Francis has stated is the suggested and prefered way to do it, as this updates the site.wfs file.

The method Rich suggested will still function, but the file is not normally accessible from standard administration screens and therefore one would require access to locate and write to the Server's files. The other aspect of this is that there are many other settings within the ibicommd.wfs file that should not be tampered with unless you know what you are doing.

I'm not advocating not following Rich's suggestion, merely advising that you should follow Francis' lead in this respect.

T

Tony, any guess as to why the custom setting is working on my WFServlet server and not on my CGI server?

Francis,

Not sure, although I would use the

<SET>REMOTE_ADDR(PASS)

if you just want the variable passed with the same name. If you want to change the name then use -

<sendvar>
REM_ADDR=&REMOTE_ADDR
<endsendvar>

Unfortunately I don't use CGI (neither access it) as from release 7.1.1 the servlet is the way to go (?) and I don't really want to start changing my Client's settings, even for a short while. I only have apache installed locally without IIS so no CGI there anyway.

T

Tony, thanks! Both your suggestions work in WFServlet.

As I pointed out in https://forums.informationbuilders.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/...021071381#9021071381 the documentation is confusing regarding these HTTP Header Variables.

This works in WFServlet:

<SET> AUTH_TYPE (pass)
<SET> CONTENT_LENGTH (pass)
<SET> CONTENT_TYPE (pass)
<SET> DOCUMENT_ROOT (pass)
<SET> HTTP_ACCEPT (pass)
<SET> HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING (pass)
<SET> HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE (pass)
<SET> HTTP_USER_AGENT (pass)
<SET> HTTP_REFERER (pass)
<SET> PATH_INFO (pass)
<SET> PATH_TRANSLATED (pass)
<SET> QUERY_STRING (pass)
<SET> REMOTE_ADDR (pass)
<SET> REMOTE_HOST (pass)
<SET> REQUEST_METHOD (pass)
<SET> SCRIPT_NAME (pass)
<SET> SERVER_NAME (pass)
<SET> SERVER_PORT (pass)
<SET> SERVER_PROTOCOL (pass)
<SET> SERVER_SOFTWARE (pass)
<SET> URL_PROTOCOL (pass)

To get back to the original question, I don't see how RichH's suggestion would work -

-SET &HFILE='\\' || &REMOTE_ADDR || '\' || 'C\demo.htm';
FILEDEF DEMO DISK &HFILE

assumes that the workstation has sharing enabled on the C drive.

Francis,

Glad it worked for you.

You're right regarding the implied share and it is always the thing that gets overlooked

T