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iPhone + download videos

Hello, How to create an application, that will allow users to download videos to their iPhone from some server. ...

Force download of a file on a network share through IIS

I'm writing a quick web page to control access to a web based repository of audio file (recordings of lectures). The audio files are held on SAN and accessed from the web server using a UNC share. I want to force a "save" dialog to appear, because during testing we have found that some web browsers make it very difficult to save mp3 fi...

Browser download complete event

We've been looking for a while for an answer to this, but haven't found a solution. We have a web server, which allows the user to download files (pdfs), which are dynamically-generated and served from servlets. We'd like to know when a download has completed (and how: was it successful, did it fail, did the user cancel?). Is there a...

Filename and mime problems - ASP.NET Download file (C#)

I'm facing a very strange problem in my ASP.NET Application. When the user clicks the button that downloads a file, Internet Explorer / Chrome / Firefox shows the save dialog but the name of the file is the name of the ASPX Page (For example, if the page is named Download.aspx the download dialog shows the "file" Download.zip). Someti...

how to determine if file has downloaded

I have the following code that allows a user to download a file. I need to know (if possible) if they downloaded the file successfully. Is there any kind of callback that I can tie into to know whether or not they were successful in download it? Thanks. string filename = Path.GetFileName(url); context.Response.Buffer = true; context....

best way to exchange files

I have a client (java) that has to exchange files (upload/download) with an IIS/FTP server , Is there any guidance wich method is better (FTP , http, maybe Web service with MTOM ) ...

delaying script to slow leechers

I am developing an image bank site that will hold royalty-free images for download. I want to slow down anyone using a bot or who is downloading too often, so I have a daily file limit and have incorporated a variable sleep into the script that delivers the files. I do that by writing the completion time of the last download to a databas...

HTTP Download very Big File

I'm working at a web application in Python/Twisted. I want the user to be able to download a very big file (> 100 Mb). I don't want to load all the file in memory (of the server), of course. server side I have this idea: ... request.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/plain') fp = open(fileName, 'rb') try: r = None while r != '': ...

Android: Loading data and then notifying an Activity? Also documented a failed approach!

I just tried a stupid approach and it crashed my app... Basically I have an activity that has three tabs (containing three activities). Each of the tabs gets its input from an xml file downloaded off the net. Everything is fine but when I start my app, it has download the xml file and there's a "wait" time for this. I managed to get aro...

force download script

I worked on a nice "force download file" script which purpose is to make sure files are being offered to download instead of displayed in the browser, no matter what type of file that is. It used to work well but recently i received feedback that it wouldn't work, notably for pdf and xls files (MS Excel). The file is either detected as ...

Flash AS3 : how to stop data loading before completion ?

Hi, I'm developing a system which use resources(image/sound) from server. on user action, I download specific resources and use them. now, before all those resources downloading completes, If user perform another action, I want to discontinue/cancel downloading current ones. Is this possible? I tried with Loader.stop() method but it ...

Download multiple file in ASP.NET or Flash

Dear all Is there any way to DOWNLOAD multiple files in asp.net? Is there any way to DOWNLOAD multiple files in Flash? ...

HTTP authenticate a file download ... how to? [SOLVED]

In my website I've a php script that launches a file download without showing the full path of the file, the code look like this: $path = '../examples/test.zip'; $type = "application/zip"; header("Expires: 0"); header("Pragma: no-cache"); header('Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate'); header('Cache-Control: pre-check=0, ...

Shell script (mac): How to download files from a directory using wget and regular expression?

I'm trying to download images (.jpg) from web folder using wget. I want to download only images, which have a certain sentences in file name. This works fine wget -r -nd -A .jpg http://www.examplewebsite.com/folder/ but I like to include a sentence eg. "john". I tried wget -r -nd -A .jpg '*john*' http://www.examplewebsite.com/folde...

How do I download flash files embedded using SWFObject

A site I use displays a flash file, which is embedded dynamically using SWFObject. I want to download the flash file locally, so I can run it when I don't have access to the net. However, when I try to open the url to the swf file, it demands an 'id' parameter that is normally passed by the SWFObject Javascript. Specifically, the sourc...

Progress Bar Of URLDownloadToFile

Hello, I'm using MASM to build a download program, but the thing is that i don't know how to use a progress bar to show the progress of the download, i'm using URLDownloadToFile like this: invoke URLDownloadToFile, NULL, chr$("http://masm32.masmcode.com/masm32/m32v10r.zip"), chr$("D:\test.zip"), 0, 0 Best Regards. ...

php and file storage on windows servers

My question is related to using a difference drive on a windows server to store files. The partition of the server is too small to handle a large amount of data files, and I want to use the D: drive as the file storage space. My problem is, how do I access the files when they're stored on the D: drive using php? I've tried a multitude o...

Creating a download link for .jpg file using PHP

This one should be easy, I think. I have a paginated image gallery, and under each image is a small link that says "Download Comp". This should allow people to quickly download the .jpg file (with a PHP generated watermark) to their computer. Now, I know I can just link straight to the .jpg file, but that requires the user to have the i...

Stream binary file from MySQL to download with PHP

I have Excel spreadsheets stored in a MySQL table longblob field. I need to retrieve this data and then stream it to the user as a downloadable file, preferably without writing it to disk first. Possible? Edit - Eh, just figured it out... Posted in answer below. ...

check if download is completed

Hello, My question is - What is the best possible way to detect if a download is completed, because after that I want to update the database. I try'd some of this code from php manuel, but it doesn't do much for me. Header ( "Content-Type: application/octet-stream"); Header ( "Content-Length: ".filesize($file)); Header( "Content-Di...