Access a URL Zip file with shp file in it

you need to specify the url like so: 

https://static.aer.ca/prd/data/wells/PLA_RTF_SHP.zip[**/*.shp]

It definitely confused me especially as it works without the asterisk on desktop.

Check out @mark2atsafe​ post here

https://community.safe.com/s/question/0D54Q000080hczoSAA/question-of-the-week-reading-and-writing-nested-zipped-shapefiles

https://static.aer.ca/prd/data/wells/PLA_RTF_SHP.zip[**/*.shp]

Unfortunately, it's still giving me error. Even when I run in on Desktop. 

"Shape Reader: Failed to open dataset 'https://static.aer.ca/prd/data/wells/PLA_RTF_SHP.zip[**/*.shp]' which is neither an existing file nor directory"

Hi @messagemauri​ 

I was able to run the workspace pointing to https://static.aer.ca/prd/data/wells/PLA_RTF_SHP.zip using FME Desktop 2019.2 and FME Server 2019.2

see log attached

Can you check if you have Windows Long File Path enable?

It is possible when FME Server/Desktop is extracting the file which may be exceeding the character limit of 260. See the article Enable Long file path to resolve the issue.

Thanks @hkingsbury​ and @rahulsharma​ . Much appreaciated. I 'm still getting the error.

So what I did is a workaround by introducing an httpcaller to download the zip file to store it in a folder in FME Server, and then added a FeatureReader to access the zip file in that folder in FME Server which then accesses the shapefile and reads it. Thanks again for your help.

A good transformer to use in this case is a TempPathnameCreator. This will create a temporary file name that you can use in the HTTPCaller as a download location and subsequently as a read location for the FeatureReader.

The created location will then be deleted at the end of the process