Archive: Read Remote File
Read Remote File
Hello there!
Is it possible to read the contents of a remote text file (http server), without having to download the text file to the local machine?
Right now, i use INETC to obtain the text file, save it locally, read it, close it, compare values. I really dont want to do that, as that's how I verify version and password of a local tool i use.
i just want to be able to read the password from the website, and use that as a variable inside of the script.
Can this be done?
Firstly I would argue that you shouldn't read a password. You should read a hash of it instead. Otherwise no not without writing your own dll/exe or modifying inetc to do it. It would be a handy feature of inetc I would agree (a /tostack option).
Stu
that bites :(
I really dont want to have to download the password.txt from my server lol.
I keep reading that there are other ways to validate input, like passwords, etc, but none really w/o hard coding the password inside of the script file.
Any good solutions out there to validate user input in order to launch the installer? Like, maybe a php script, or something that can be used?
Dunno, just frustrating :(
You could probably call WinINet or WinHTTP function with the system plugin, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...=vs.85%29.aspx for a list of functions
There is this plugin: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/NsisUrlLib_plug-in
However, even when following the instructions, it doesn't seem to ever return anything.
NsisUrlLib::UrlOpen /NOUNLOAD "http://www.mydomain.com/text.txt"
NsisUrlLib::IterateLine /NOUNLOAD
Pop $1
If you are validating a password as I said you should hash it and check that instead. When possible you should always avoid having a copy of the actual password. Also instead of downloading the hash/password, instead POST the hash/password to a web script which does the validation and outputs some success string. Note that this could be bypassed by using a proxy or by changing the hosts file.
Stu