Get Content PDF

The getContentPDF call applies only to objects of type document. If you use this call on an object of type collection you will receive an error response.

Request

Request method is getContentPDF:

GET https://app.netfiles.de/<dataroom-name>/projectfiles/<parentname>/<objectname>;internal&action=json&apikey=<YourApiKey>&deviceID=<currentDeviceID>&method=getContentPDF
Authorization: Basic BASE64(UTF8Bytes(<username>:<password>))
User-Agent: iPad
netfiles: <value of the netfiles cookie>
sk1: <value of the sk1 cookie>
HW_User: <value of the HW_User cookie>
HyperwaveSession: <value of the HyperwaveSession cookie>
sk_s_web_S: <value of the sk_s_web_S cookie>
sk_p_web_S: <value of the sk_p_web_S cookie>

Response Headers

Note: The response headers will tell you that the content is an application/json, which is not correct.

You will need to check the binary data to see if you received a PDF or the documentType from the result of a previous Get Object call or the item in the Get Children call of this objects parent.

Response

The response is binary data of length content-length from the headers.

The actual content-type depends on whether the document’s content could be converted to PDF or not on the server. If the content could be converted to PDF, you will receive a PDF content. Otherwise you will receive the original, raw content data.

You will need to check yourself what type you are receiving.

If you receive original raw content, In order to process the received binary data correctly, you need to analyze the result of Get Children of the parent of this object (identify the right object there) or retrieve information about this object using the Get Object call.

There you will find the actual document type in the documentType attribute.

Note: If you receive the content as PDF you cannot check the original file’s md5 checksum against the md5 checksum of retrieved content.