Trying to pass by the 'store or open file' message using Delphi 7, TWebBrowser, IE7, XP SP2

Trying to pass by the 'store or open file' message using Delphi 7, TWebBrowser, IE7, XP SP2

Just was pointed at this newsgroup, but cannot retrieve history before 
7-3-2008. So it could be I'm asking a question posed previously. Could 
someone point me to the answer in that case? Thanks in advance.

I have been writing a program (using Windows XP SP2, Delphi 7 and 
TWebBrowser) to do an auto fill of forms on a web page, i.e.
http://www.epra.com/indices.jsp

After having filled in all parameters in the last step I try to get returned 
a file by virtually pressing the Download Data button
(http://www.epra.com/downloadChart.jsp) (in this example with quotes from 
real estate indexes).

But .... instead of having the possibility to just store that data file 
somewhere I do get a message box asking me whether I want to store or open
the file. This is true for systems running IE7, not IE6.

Of course, it is a security measure to prevent downloading and installing 
without user consent of files on his / her machine.

But in this case, the auto fill program just is written to automatically 
download quotes. So user interference is not acceptable.

I have been looking around on the internet for days, but cannot find a 
solution to prevent appearing this message box or to respond to it from my
program. This does not succeed because it is a modal window, preventing my 
program to do something until you clicked on it so it disappears, after 
which my program is given control again.

I also tried to find a setting in the registry by which you possibly could 
disable this feature. But I did not find anything. So I'm not so hopeful to
be able to set a kind of 'feature control' in the Internet Explorer part of 
the registry.

Does somebody have any idea or could you point me in a direction, where I 
could look further to a possible solution?

I would be very grateful for your help.

Regards,

Franz Maurer

date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:09:23 +0100 author: Franz Maurer

Re: Trying to pass by the 'store or open file' message using Delphi 7, TWebBrowser, IE7, XP SP2

You can get the URL and download it using wininet. You may need extra
requests if the downloading needs authentication.


-- 
Sheng Jiang
Microsoft MVP in VC++
"Franz Maurer"  wrote in message
news:47e2eeae$0$316$e4fe514c@dreader24.news.xs4all.nl...
> Just was pointed at this newsgroup, but cannot retrieve history before
> 7-3-2008. So it could be I'm asking a question posed previously. Could
> someone point me to the answer in that case? Thanks in advance.
>
> I have been writing a program (using Windows XP SP2, Delphi 7 and
> TWebBrowser) to do an auto fill of forms on a web page, i.e.
> http://www.epra.com/indices.jsp
>
> After having filled in all parameters in the last step I try to get
returned
> a file by virtually pressing the Download Data button
> (http://www.epra.com/downloadChart.jsp) (in this example with quotes from
> real estate indexes).
>
> But .... instead of having the possibility to just store that data file
> somewhere I do get a message box asking me whether I want to store or open
> the file. This is true for systems running IE7, not IE6.
>
> Of course, it is a security measure to prevent downloading and installing
> without user consent of files on his / her machine.
>
> But in this case, the auto fill program just is written to automatically
> download quotes. So user interference is not acceptable.
>
> I have been looking around on the internet for days, but cannot find a
> solution to prevent appearing this message box or to respond to it from my
> program. This does not succeed because it is a modal window, preventing my
> program to do something until you clicked on it so it disappears, after
> which my program is given control again.
>
> I also tried to find a setting in the registry by which you possibly could
> disable this feature. But I did not find anything. So I'm not so hopeful
to
> be able to set a kind of 'feature control' in the Internet Explorer part
of
> the registry.
>
> Does somebody have any idea or could you point me in a direction, where I
> could look further to a possible solution?
>
> I would be very grateful for your help.
>
> Regards,
>
> Franz Maurer
>
>

date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:02:37 -0600 author: Sheng Jiang[MVP] uss

Re: Trying to pass by the 'store or open file' message using Delphi 7, TWebBrowser, IE7, XP SP2

Thanks for the help.

I replaced my

           WebBrowser1.Navigate('http://www.epra.com/downloadChart.jsp');

statement with the Wininet code I found on

http://delphi.about.com/od/internetintranet/a/get_file_net.htm

and now everything runs smoothly.

Thanks again.

Franz

"Sheng Jiang[MVP]" <sheng_jiang@hotmail.com.discuss> schreef in bericht 
news:uHrQO02iIHA.3940@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> You can get the URL and download it using wininet. You may need extra
> requests if the downloading needs authentication.
>
>
> -- 
> Sheng Jiang
> Microsoft MVP in VC++
> "Franz Maurer"  wrote in message
> news:47e2eeae$0$316$e4fe514c@dreader24.news.xs4all.nl...
>> Just was pointed at this newsgroup, but cannot retrieve history before
>> 7-3-2008. So it could be I'm asking a question posed previously. Could
>> someone point me to the answer in that case? Thanks in advance.
>>
>> I have been writing a program (using Windows XP SP2, Delphi 7 and
>> TWebBrowser) to do an auto fill of forms on a web page, i.e.
>> http://www.epra.com/indices.jsp
>>
>> After having filled in all parameters in the last step I try to get
> returned
>> a file by virtually pressing the Download Data button
>> (http://www.epra.com/downloadChart.jsp) (in this example with quotes from
>> real estate indexes).
>>
>> But .... instead of having the possibility to just store that data file
>> somewhere I do get a message box asking me whether I want to store or 
>> open
>> the file. This is true for systems running IE7, not IE6.
>>
>> Of course, it is a security measure to prevent downloading and installing
>> without user consent of files on his / her machine.
>>
>> But in this case, the auto fill program just is written to automatically
>> download quotes. So user interference is not acceptable.
>>
>> I have been looking around on the internet for days, but cannot find a
>> solution to prevent appearing this message box or to respond to it from 
>> my
>> program. This does not succeed because it is a modal window, preventing 
>> my
>> program to do something until you clicked on it so it disappears, after
>> which my program is given control again.
>>
>> I also tried to find a setting in the registry by which you possibly 
>> could
>> disable this feature. But I did not find anything. So I'm not so hopeful
> to
>> be able to set a kind of 'feature control' in the Internet Explorer part
> of
>> the registry.
>>
>> Does somebody have any idea or could you point me in a direction, where I
>> could look further to a possible solution?
>>
>> I would be very grateful for your help.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Franz Maurer
>>
>>
>
>

date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:47:55 +0100 author: Franz Maurer