Preserved Topic: FileSystemObject - ASP

Good morning

Got a question for the ASP-sharks inhere. I've created a file on the server using the FSO and added some lines to it. Its supposed to be created once a user clicks a "create file" button. After that, the user should automatically be given the download prompt to download the created file. Here comes the tricky part. How do I automatically delete the created file, once the download is complete?

Its like making a temp file on the server....letting the user download it....and when its downloaded...file should be deleted again.

Any ideas?

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I have considered this solution yeah. The session would still be open when the user downloads the file. Then if he logs off i'd make a function in global.asa Session_onEnd which looks for the file...and if it exist...then it deletes it.

But what if the user decides to close the browser...or surf directly to another website. Then it could take 10mins for the session to timeout. Unless of course....its possible to make some "..on window.close, open popup window.." and then run the session.abandon code in that window with a self-close.

A bit tricky...

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How about making it delete before they write to it? Like when they hit submit it would delete the file if it exists and then create one. What are you going to do about 19 people trying to do that at the same time?

God bless,
Atomic

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Yeah I don't know how all this stuff works. Just that people would be modifying the same file? Or am I a moron?

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Atomic

In this case that situation will never appear, as every user can only create a file which consist of their userid - like 100250.csv

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