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jfpelletier
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Writing output file from response from HTTP client

Hello all, I have a HTTP Client snap that returns a file as response (it's a legacy Word .doc file), and I can't seem to be able to save it correctly as binary file. The results returned by the cal...
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jfpelletier
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2 years ago

Hello koryknick,

Thanks for letting me know that we can output binary directly from the HTTP client, that's very good to know!

So I tried that and unfortunately my resulting document is still not valid. Maybe my issue is the way that I retrieve the file? When I look at the preview to download the results, it says that the file only contains the 20,000 first bytes, which is not the correct size. What is the best way to download a file that I downloaded from the HTTP client?

Kind regards,

JF

 

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jfpelletier
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2 years ago

I forgot to attach the screenshot of the results that I mentioned earlier: