Advice on how to access and update Word .docs located on a central web server

Hey Folks,

I've been handed a potential design and I have no experience with such a
scenario:

We are looking at putting Word .docs on a central web server. Barring
security and / or other limitations, how
would one access Word documents to retrieve and insert material? I am
particularly interested in solutions that would be platform-transparent
(e.g. the web server might be a UNIX server where Microsoft solutions are
not available)?

I'm mainly looking for a good starting point utilizing VBA to access and
update these .docs programmatically.

Thanks & Regards,

TC

TCook
Fri Aug 04 04:21:26 CDT 2006

Hey All,

I believe that I have found the right track. I should use XMLHTTP to upload
and download files to the webserver.

If anyone wants to add to that, feel free.

Regards,

TC


"TCook" <getmyemails2@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hey Folks,
>
> I've been handed a potential design and I have no experience with such a
> scenario:
>
> We are looking at putting Word .docs on a central web server. Barring
> security and / or other limitations, how
> would one access Word documents to retrieve and insert material? I am
> particularly interested in solutions that would be platform-transparent
> (e.g. the web server might be a UNIX server where Microsoft solutions are
> not available)?
>
> I'm mainly looking for a good starting point utilizing VBA to access and
> update these .docs programmatically.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> TC
>
>
>
>

Steve
Fri Aug 04 11:31:51 CDT 2006


>
> We are looking at putting Word .docs on a central web server. Barring
> security and / or other limitations, how
> would one access Word documents to retrieve and insert material?

You can open docs as read-only by using the full http:// path to the word file.
This works on at least the Solaris (unix running apache) boxes at my ISP.

Do you then need to save the docs back to the server?
Because of login requirements and such, that may complicate things but as a
quick test I just did this with a Word file:

File, Save As
ftp://username:password@mydomain.com/folder/folder/filename.doc

The user would need appropriate privileges to the server directory of course,
but the same'd be true of any shared folder, local or otherwise.


I am
> particularly interested in solutions that would be platform-transparent
> (e.g. the web server might be a UNIX server where Microsoft solutions are
> not available)?
>
> I'm mainly looking for a good starting point utilizing VBA to access and
> update these .docs programmatically.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> TC
>

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