file downloader in webplayer.

Unity Engine
1

hey

I’m making a small application, yes application (lol) with Unity for my friends who kindly asked me to do it.
I thought I’ll do it in Unity so they’d be able to use online with webplayer build.

Now I need to make it so it’d download a file from specified url to a specified folder when they click a button.
Before even starting I made a quick test to see whether it will work or not.
It works in editor and in standalone app, but it doesn’t work in webplayer :S

Here’s the code:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;

public class NewBehaviourScript1 : MonoBehaviour {
	
	public GUIText test;
	
		string urlas = @"http://www.onedotnetway.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/image35.png";
	string diskas = @"z:\image35.png";

// Use this for initialization
	void Start () {
try
{
System.Net.WebClient client = new WebClient();
client.DownloadFile(urlas, diskas);
}
catch(Exception e)
{
print(e.ToString());
test.text = "error: " + e.ToString() + " ";
}
	}
	
	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () {
	
	}
}

It gives the following error when ran in webplayer:

Any way to fix or bypass that? Am I missing something?

Cheers

2

You cant access the filesystem in the webplayer. Its a security limitation by Unity.

That means no save to disk or load from disk in the webplayer.

//perlohmann

3

aw, that’s a shame :frowning:
back to java or vb then i guess…