Serving member-files inline with URL argument

Hi.

Is it possible to have a link to a file in the member-files secure folder, and in that URL to pass url arguments to the page.

For example, I have xyz.html in the secure folder. I create a link using the secure-files shortcode and serve it inline, all works fine.

But I actually want the url to be “xyz.html?variable=X&variable2=y” or something similar. When I try that, it breaks and I get a 404 error.

To be as specific as possible, the URL I am trying to pass is for a Learning Record Store so it contains plenty of text for authentication, user info, lesson info and so on. It works fine outside of the s2member scope.

Is this possible or have I gone wrong somewhere.

I see what you mean.

Well I’m not sure if this is possible or not, however the fact that you’re getting errors tells me it’s not possible by default.

I’ll ask Jason and see what he has to say about this. :)

– Eduan

Here’s what he answered:

Passing additional query string arguments to a protected file is possible.

For example: http://www.example.com/wp-content/plugins/s2member-files/example.php?hello=world

However, parsing them inside the file is NOT possible, because PHP code is not executed by s2Member® when the file is being served. We do not attempt to evaluate any PHP code in the file being served to the customer.

In other words, this would NOT work inside the protected file.

However, you could parse the query string arguments using JavaScript maybe.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/901115/how-can-i-get-query-string-values

Hi

Still not sure I understand. Here is the URL that does not work. This is the URL I would like to serve inline (with various elements neutralized). Perhaps it is the coding, the length, or something else

http://myserver.com/corp/wp-content/uploads/grassblade/lesson1/story.html?actor=%7B%22mbox%22%3A%22mailto%3Acontact%40myserver.com%22%2C%22name%22%3A%22admin%22%2C%22objectType%22%3A%22Agent%22%7D&auth=Basic%20SkJxazU1UG5JQmp2er4f1sajk6NVFjZ1NWd2FRcnlKZlBXTWFaRW8%3D&endpoint=https%3A%2F%2Fmyserver.waxlrs.com%2FTCAPI%2F

What Jason is trying to say is that you can give the file arguments, but the file will not use them. Basically.

So actually there’s no use to giving it arguments, lol.

– Eduan

Eduan / Jason

Thanks to you both for the definitive reply. I don’t have the functionality I need, but I got a straightforward and fast reply from you, which is the next best thing

Have a great day

Glad I was able to help Richard. :)