"Unable to get the file path when value is created using file stream connection" error

​@AugustZellmer2 It sounds like you’re making this too difficult.

In the REST Web Services: GET method action, there is the opportunity to save the downloaded file onto your local drive.

You can specify whatever filename you want for the downloaded file. 

Selecting that option on the REST Web Services: GET Method action doesn’t download the file. It doesn’t error either; it just doesn’t do anything for me. Am I missing something? 🤔

(I also tried it without the custom header I’m trying to use. It still didn’t download the file.)

Can you please enable the capture failure response, this option to log the failure responses which helps to find the issue.

​@AugustZellmer2 Yeah, I’ve seen that in certain web server configurations.

Really, you only have a few options since you need a custom header. (That excludes the Browser: Download file action because it doesn’t support custom headers.) That leaves things like a Python or Powershell script to download the file. Using the Invoke-WebRequest command in Powershell comes to mind as it supports custom headers and the ability to save files.

Invoke-WebRequest "https://www.cte.iup.edu/cte/Resources/PDF_Sample.pdf" -Headers @{ "got_receipt" = "true" } -OutFile "PDF_Sample.pdf"

Hope that helps.

I enabled it. Where does it log the failures to?

​@AugustZellmer2 It goes to the output variable. I don’t think you’ll see anything in the failure response. It wouldn’t surprise me to see the binary PDF contents in the output variable though!

​@AugustZellmer2 Yeah, I’ve seen that in certain web server configurations.

Really, you only have a few options since you need a custom header. (That excludes the Browser: Download file action because it doesn’t support custom headers.) That leaves things like a Python or Powershell script to download the file. Using the Invoke-WebRequest command in Powershell comes to mind as it supports custom headers and the ability to save files.

Invoke-WebRequest "https://www.cte.iup.edu/cte/Resources/PDF_Sample.pdf" -Headers @{ "got_receipt" = "true" } -OutFile "PDF_Sample.pdf"

Hope that helps.

Okay, I’ll write some script to do it. Thanks for your input!

LongPathTool helped handle deep file paths so file operations worked after saving the stream properly.