We have some files on our website that users of our software can download. Some of the files are in virtual folders on the website while others are on our ftp. The files on the ftp are generally accessed by clicking on an ftp:// link in a browser - most of our customers do not have an ftp client. The other files are accessed by clicking ...
I've seen this all over the place: Download here! SHA1 = 8e1ed2ce9e7e473d38a9dc7824a384a9ac34d7d0 what does it mean? how does a hash come into play as far as downloads and... what use can I make of it? Is this a legacy item where you used to have to verify some checksum after you downloaded the whole file? Just curious, Cheers...
Hi We just added an autoupdater in our software and got some bug report saying that the autoupdate wouldn't complete properly because the downloaded file's sha1 checksum wasn't matching. We're hosted on Amazon S3... That's either something wrong with my code or something wrong with S3. I reread my code for suspicious stuff and wrote a...
What is the best way to implement, from a web page a download action using asp.net 2.0? Log files for a action are created in a directory called [Application Root]/Logs. I have the full path and want to provide a button, that when clicked will download the log file from the IIS server to the users local pc. ...
What code do you need to add in PHP to automatically have the browser download a file to the local machine when a link is visited? I am specifically thinking of functionality similar to that of download sites that prompt the user to save a file to disk once you click on the name of the software? ...
I've come across a rather interesing (and frustrating) problem with IE6. We are serving up some server generated pdfs and then simply setting headers in PHP to force a browser download of the file. Works fine and all, except in IE6 but only if the windows user account is set to standard user (ie. not administrator). Since this is for a ...
Any ideas what the average user's download speed is? I'm working on a site that streams video and am trying to figure out what an average download speed as to determine quality. I know i might be comparing apples with oranges but I'm just looking for something to get a basis for where to start. ...
The job at hand: I want to make sure that my website's users view a page before they start a download. If they have not looked at the page but try to hotlink to the files directly they should go to the webpage before the download is allowed. Any suggestions that are better than my idea to send out a cookie and - before the download sta...
On a PHP-based web site, I want to send users a download package after they have filled out a short form. The site-initiated download should be similar to sites like download.com, which say "your download will begin in a moment." A couple of possible approaches I know about, and browser compatibility (based on a quick test): 1) Do a wi...
I'm trying to find a way of finding out who is downloading what image from an image gallery. Users can download using a button beside the thumbnail or right click and use the "save link as" Is it possible to relate a user session or ID to a "save link as" action from all browsers using either PHP or JavaScript. ...
Two years ago, we shipped a multi-gigabyte Windows application, with lots of video files. Now we're looking to release a significant update, with approximately 1 gigabyte of new and changed data. We're currently looking at DVD fulfillment houses (like these folks, for example), which claim to be able to ship DVDs to our customers for $5...
We require all requests for downloads to have a valid login (non-http) and we generate transaction tickets for each download. If you were to go to one of the download links and attempt to "replay" the transaction, we use HTTP codes to forward you to get a new transaction ticket. This works fine for a majority of users. There's a small su...
I have an script that receives an encrypted url and from that generates a download, the most critic par of the script is this: $MimeType = new MimeType(); $mimetype = $MimeType->getType($filename); $basename = basename($filename); header("Content-type: $mimetype"); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$basename\""); heade...
I've noticed that Internet Explorer adds a number in square brackets to files downloaded from the internet (usually [1]). This creates a big problem with downloading Excel spreadsheets as square brackets are not a valid filename character inside Excel worksheet name. That problem is IE specific, others browsers are keeping same file name...
I want to get the size of an http:/.../file before I download it. The file can be a webpage, image, or a media file. Can this be done with HTTP headers? How do I download just the file HTTP header? Thanks! ...
How do I download all files in a directory and all subdirectories on an HTTP server? Thanks! ...
I have a page in my vb.net web application that needs to toss a bunch of data into a text file and then present it to the user for download. What's the best / most efficient way to build such a text file on a .net web server? Edit: to answer a question down below, this is going to be a download once and then throw-away kind of file. U...
I've been searching and can't find the download files on opengl.org. can someone please point me to the right direction? ...
I am trying to use WebClient to download a file from web using a Winform application. However, I really only wanted to download HTML file. Any other type I will want to ignore. I checked the WebResponse.contenttype, it always return me NULL. Anyone have any idea what could be the cause? ...
I have written a watir script that downloads files. One of the files it downloads has a .dcf extension. Months ago, on my machine, I changed a setting somewhere so that .dcf files prompt for download ("Do you want to open or save this file?") instead of opening in the browser. This is the behavior that I desire. I am using XP Pro/IE7. ...