Reading files inside zip files from Javascript
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From: Narendra Sisodiya on 7 Dec 2009 01:11 I have some xml files which are zipped. I want to read them using Ajax (Javascript). may anybody suggest some way to do so?? I otherway, Do http protocol support reading or getting files inside a zip file? Something like http://localhost/MySlideshow.odp{/Images/Thumbnail.png} ?? I want to get such files using Ajax. Do we have any possible solution at client side where we get one zip file and unzip using Javascript and read files ?
From: rf on 7 Dec 2009 01:29 "Narendra Sisodiya" <narendra.sisodiya(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:17da918d-5026-4e5d-bad1-aafb7da01925(a)u1g2000pre.googlegroups.com... >I have some xml files which are zipped. I want to read them using > Ajax (Javascript). may anybody suggest some way to do so?? > > I otherway, Do http protocol support reading or getting files inside a > zip file? > > Something like > http://localhost/MySlideshow.odp{/Images/Thumbnail.png} > ?? > I want to get such files using Ajax. If you are using Ajax then you are calling a server side process. Do it on the server. Zip is fully supported by server side things such as PHP.
From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn on 7 Dec 2009 11:54 Narendra Sisodiya wrote: > I have some xml files which are zipped, "Zipped" as in "ZIP archive" (of many files)? > I want to read them using Ajax (Javascript). may anybody suggest some way > to do so?? Yes. > I otherway, Do http protocol support reading or getting files inside a > zip file? No. HTTP supports transparent gzip compression and decompression, though. > Something like > http://localhost/MySlideshow.odp{/Images/Thumbnail.png} > ?? Whether that can work does not depend on the transport protocol, but on the server side. Certainly the server would need to serve only the image resource then. > I want to get such files using Ajax. Possible, but whether the payload can be put to use would probably depend on the user agent supporting `data:' URLs. > Do we have any possible solution at client side where we get one zip file > and unzip using Javascript and read files ? Unlikely. <http://jibbering.com/faq/#posting> PointedEars -- Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network. -- Tim Berners-Lee
From: "Michael Haufe ("TNO")" on 7 Dec 2009 13:17 On Dec 7, 10:54 am, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedE...(a)web.de> wrote: > Possible, but whether the payload can be put to use would probably depend on > the user agent supporting `data:' URLs. I believe most, if not all major browsers offer a means to obtain a "binary" string through XmlHttpRequest with or without the use of a custom overridemimetype.
From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn on 7 Dec 2009 17:12
Michael Haufe ("TNO") wrote: > Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: >> Possible, but whether the payload can be put to use would probably depend >> on the user agent supporting `data:' URLs. > > I believe most, if not all major browsers offer a means to obtain a > "binary" string through XmlHttpRequest with or without the use of a > custom overridemimetype. Apparently you have not understood what I said. Of course it is possible to obtain the "binary" string (the payload I was talking about). And then what? PointedEars -- Danny Goodman's books are out of date and teach practices that are positively harmful for cross-browser scripting. -- Richard Cornford, cljs, <cife6q$253$1$8300dec7(a)news.demon.co.uk> (2004) |