Hi,
Could the network download and network request functions be modified to support redirections.
An example is try to download:
http://www.pheedo.com/e/13d8c17d1d6e1a51cae6ea8590e42166/36157_360x270.jpg
This redirects to an image on National Geographic, but using network download a blank file is returned.
Alternatively, is there a work around using multithreateded http sockets that will work for this on iPhone?
Cheers,
Further to this, if we could use the method “HEAD” on network.request that would allow us to get the redirect and manually handle it…the same as using LuaSockets:
r, c, h = http.request {method = “HEAD”,url = url}
if h.location ~= nil then
local newurl = h.location
end
I’d just use LuaSockets but it’s not asynchronous, so would love to see this built into your network capabilities.
Cheers,
Bump on this thread, can someone please confirm if this has indeed been added to the list of things to do? At the moment it’s impossible to determine if there’s a redirect on a URL or File, and since network.download doesn’t follow redirects it also never gets followed!
Cheers,
I haven’t tried this part of LuaSockets, but LuaSockets is included in Corona. (i am using a more esoteric feature, UDP multicast… and that works)
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