Identifying the location of a revlet

[rijames84]

I have a revlet that needs to know its address on the internet. Is there a function or parameter that can be passed? Or can I call something to figure out the URL of the Revlet itself? I have a settings file that resides in the same folder as the revlet on the server, I want to read that file in. I don't need to write to the file, just read. I can use GET URL if I know the address.

Any help would be appreciated.

Richard

[bn]

Hi Richard,
welcome to the forum.
If you want to read a prefs file from your server you already know the URL.
Lets assume your prefs file is in your public folder in a subfolder testfile in another subfolder presets and the name of the text file is prefs.txt then you can get it from your revlet like this:

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on mouseUp
   put "http://yourDomainName.com/testfile/presets/prefs.txt" into myPath
   put url myPath into field 1
   -- or
   put url myPath into myVariable
end mouseUp

regards
Bernd

[rijames84]

Thanks Bernd,

I know my server's address, but this revlet is to deployed on customers webservers as a product and each deployment will be on a different server. I don't want to hard code each deployment's address in the revlet. Somehow I'd like to read in a file that gives me the URL of the server it is sitting on.

Hope that make better sense.

Richard

[oliverk]

Hi Richard,

If you know the address when you generate the HTML page that the revlet resides in, you could pass the url to it using the revletParams. There is a lesson on our site that explains how to do this:

http://lessons.runrev.com/spaces/lesson ... -a-plugin-

Hope this helps
Regards
Oliver

[rijames84]

Oliver,

Thank you so much. I was headed in the right direction, but the lesson was perfect help.

Richard