Downloading and executing msi installers as part of an install process

[zootsuitjeff]

Hello,

I'm working on creating an installer for our framework, and as part of the process I need to download some msi files and run them as subinstall tasks.  The issue i'm coming across is that the url's are not getting saved using httpget.  Here is an example of the action I'm trying to invoke:

<showProgressDialog>

                            <title>Install node js</title>

                            <width>400</width>

                            <actionList>

                                <httpGet>

                                    <filename>${installdir}\tmp\node-v12.18.4-x64.msi</filename>

                                    <progressText>Downloading nodejs</progressText>

                                    <url>https://nodejs.org/dist/v12.18.4/node-v12.18.4-x64.msi</url>

                                </httpGet>

                                <runProgram>

                                    <program>${installdir}\tmp\node-v12.18.4-x64.msi</program>

                                    <programArguments></programArguments>

                                    <progressText>Installing Node JS</progressText>

                                </runProgram>

                            </actionList>

                        </showProgressDialog>

And the error I am getting is:

Error executing action <httpGet>:

Error saving URL https://nodejs.org/dist/v12.18.4/node-v12.18.4-x64.msi to C:\playatest\tmp\node-v12.18.4-x64.msi

Is this feasible to do?  What am I doing wrong or how can i debug this?

Thanks,

Jeff

[michiel_dhont]

Hi zootsuitjeff,

Could you try to enable <enableSslSupport> in your project?

<project>

  ...

  <enableSslSupport>1</enableSslSupport>

  ...

</project>

Regards,

Michiel

[zootsuitjeff]

Yes I had tried that already.  If i don't have <enableSslSupport>1</enableSslSupport> included, i get this error:

Error executing action <httpGet>:

SSL support was not enabled for this installer

[michiel_dhont]

In which actionList are you executing the action? Does the installdir exists before downloading the file?

[zootsuitjeff]

That may have been the issue. Once I wrapped these actions within a component, it downloaded and worked correctly. thanks for the suggestion!

[zootsuitjeff]

The real issue I was having was i was trying to save the file in ${installdir}\temp\some-package.msi, without creating the directory ${installdir}\temp first.  Did not realize that it wouldn't automatically create the directory for me.

[michiel_dhont]

Hi zootsuitjeff​,

I'm glad to hear the issue has been solved.

Regards,

Michiel