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Classic ASP

Box.com Download Binary File to Memory

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Retrieves the actual data of the file into a memory (not to a local file).

Chilkat Classic ASP Downloads

Classic ASP
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
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<%
success = 0

' This requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

set http = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Http")
http.KeepResponseBody = 1

' Provide a previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
' See Get Box OAuth2 Access Token.
http.AuthToken = "BOX_ACCESS_TOKEN"

http.FollowRedirects = 1

' The file is specified by the file ID.
' In this case, we're downloading a file with FILE_ID = 283371752129.
' The general form of the URL for downloading is: https://api.box.com/2.0/files/FILE_ID/content
set bd = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.BinData")
success = http.DownloadBd("https://api.box.com/2.0/files/283371752129/content",bd)
statusCode = http.LastStatus
If (success = 0) Then
    If (statusCode = 0) Then
        ' Unable to either send the request or get the response.
        Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( http.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Else
        ' We got a response, but the status code was not in the 200s
        Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Response status code: " & statusCode) & "</pre>"
        ' Examine the response body.
        Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Response body:") & "</pre>"
        Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( http.LastResponseBody) & "</pre>"
    End If

    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Download failed.") & "</pre>"

Else
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Downloaded tigers.jpeg into an object holding the binary data.") & "</pre>"

    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Number of bytes: " & bd.NumBytes) & "</pre>"
End If


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