I've created a httpmodule but it seems to be getting called on every request within a page.
Can it configured to run only once or for a certain file type?
At the minute when a request is made to load an image it runs the module etc..
Any ideas,
Thanks,
I think the only way to fix that is put some checking within the httpmodule to work out what file is requesting the module to be run and filter it accordingly.
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On a Drupal 7 site, I need to send a specific HTTP header with all page responses that are returned to the browser. I found the documentation for drupal_add_http_header, so I know that I need to add this code:
drupal_add_http_header('Permissions-Policy', 'microphone=(self "https://www.example.com")');
What I don't know is where to add the code. Should I place it somewhere within bootstrap.inc, or is that a core file that should never be edited directly?
Also, do I need to do anything special to ensure that it only runs when Drupal is serving a web page, as opposed to being called via the Drush command line tool?
Along the lines with what #EricLavault said, you can also use HOOK_page_build, HOOK_page_alter, or HOOK_page_delivery_callback_alter even though the last two don't seem to be intended for such purposes.
I'm building a backend admin system which edits json files that control the look and feel of the main site. I want to add a 'preview' button before the user hits save. To do that, I want to use the main site, but instead of calling the actual json file in production, save a temp version of it and redirect this user's traffic for that file to the temp file - from the original site code.
i've considered both chrome pluggins, configuring iframe somehow or, in worst case scenario, grabbing the production front-end, parsing out the call to the prod json file and replacing with new temp json file. That is obviously not ideal as it would entail a lot of work and if anything changes on the prod site, this will have to be updated.
I would love your ideas!
Do you have access to the main site's source code? You could implement a preview option from the main site which accepts a GET parameter and uses a temporary JSON setting based on this GET parameter.
From the backend admin system's point of view, it's just a matter of adding the JSON as part of the ajax GET request.
Unfortunately though, there is no easy way of doing this if you don't have access to the main site's source code or if you can't reach out to whoever maintains that main site.
Your cleanest option might be to recreate the main site's look and feel instead and pass it off as a "preview".
In my MVC3 application, I'm using Application_AuthenticateRequest to create my custom user context and create the session. However, I notice that this is getting fired for every file per page request, including images, js, css, etc.
Is this the right method to do what I'm trying to do, or should I be doing this somewhere else (i.e. action filter)? Or, is this the right place, I just need to put some checks and/or configuration to ensure this method (or my block of code) is just executed for page requests instead of requests for static files?
I searched for a while trying to find the answer, and found one specific to IIS7, but this is happening for me on my ASP.NET dev server (debugging) on WinXP. Other than that, I couldn't find much, which leads me to think I may be way off on something here, possibly overlooking something simple.
Thanks in advance.
Jerad,
You are correct that you would be better off creating an action filter to handle your user context. You can decorate those controllers where the user context is required.
This is a better solution than using code to investigate the request, just so you can ignore particular requests.
counsellorben
I have an HttpModule that displays images that follow a certain URL pattern. For example, /images/employees/jason.jpg is handled by the module, but all other images aren't. It works just fine on my local machine (Cassini and IIS 7). However, the IIS6 production server isn't working. I've had the hosting company map the images to the ASP.NET worker process. Now, all images are showing that they can't render except for the images that should be rendered by the module. They are working correct.
I ran an HttpWatch instance on one of the files and received the following error:
ERROR_HTTP_INVALID_SERVER_RESPONSE
Any ideas?
Final Answer:
The module needed to be updated to transmit server files. So, I added an else to my original if and checked to see if it was an image type (by using a utility method) then use Response.TransmitFile() to pass on the file to the browser.
I then ran into a spacing issue with the images. This was because I forgot that I had .aspx files registered as an image type to perform the testing. So each page would crash during the debug process or add padding that was established from CSS. Doh!
Everything is just peachy now. Thanks to all!
There's doesn't seem to be anything particularly wrong with your module, so the issue must be coming from somewhere else. Have you got security that might be blocking the images? What actually gets returned when you request a static file?
I'd suggest seeing what gets returned (and its headers) using something like firebug to check things like the response code, content type, the actual raw response, etc...
check your web.config IIS6 / IIS7 have different places to add modules and depends on what mode your IIS7 is running in.
http://arcware.net/use-a-single-web-config-for-iis6-and-iis7
I've got a grid which provides some links for users to download files. Files are stored outside of the application, the path references are read from the database and a HTTP handler (*.ashx) is used to serve each requested file. It is, however, possible that there could be a database entry pointing to a non existent file. I catch the FileNotFoundException, but I'm not sure what would be the best method to inform the user of the missing file (so that they can contact support).
First idea is to set a standard 404 code on the response, and that's what I'm doing now.
A more helpful way would be to display a notification (jQuery) about a missing file, but the file download is not done in AJAX, so this would involve a two step process - a client side onclick handler calls a web service method to check if the file exists, if not, then I cancel the click (return false) and display a friendly message to the user. If the file exists however, I proceed with the normal execution. But this adds yet another server call.
Have you dealt with a similar problem? How did you solve it?
Some clarifications - the application is built in ASP.NET 2.0 and uses jQuery to call the web service methods.
Pawel, it seems you've answered your question already...
...(so that they can contact
support)...
By stating the above I would suggest you create a custom 404 page which notifies the user of the file not existing on disk and provide them information on how to get in contact with the support office.
I've created a HTTP Handler for handling files and if a file does not exist on disk then I return a 404 response. I've setup IIS to display a custom page if a 404 reponse has been thrown.. (and I do the same for error 500).
Hope this helps and good luck with finding the solution that fits your needs!