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IE6 "helpfully" appends suffix to downloaded file

A webapp I've been developing allows users to upload and download a type of file which is meant to be treated as an opaque blob. My app serves it up with a file extension not commonly used for any other purpose, as well as specifying that its MIME Content-Type is application/octet-stream. Internally, the file is a simple Zip archive co...

how to change all div values on a page

Hi there, i have three div's on a page with same ID's <div id="downloaded">1200</div> Now when i call the function downloadThis("filename","divID"); i want that the value of every div with id "Downloaded" should change, i am using jquery. Kindly help. ...

Downloading all files in directory using libcurl

Hi, I am new to the libcurl and found a way to download a single file from the ftp server. Now my requirement is to download all files in a directory and i guess it was not supported by libcurl. Kindly suggest on libcurl how to download all files in directory or is there any other library similar to libcurl? Thanks in advance. ...

Prevent download of .mov videos

Hello. How do I prevent download of .mov when using JQuery Media Plugin to show .mov vidoes? ...

Downloadable source code repository system

Do you know if there are some free downloadable source code repository systems? I mean something like Github that i can download and install on my pc to manage only my own projects. ...

Download Visual Studio 2003 ?..

Hi I have an application developed in .NET 1.1 using Visual Studio 2003. I have to add some functionalities to it for which I need Visual Studio 2003 but unable to find it any where. I would really appreciate if any of you could redirect me to a source where I can download Visual Studio 2003 ?? Thanks sbmarya ...

Securing Large Downloads Using C# and IIS 7

Here's the setup: 1 web server running a C# app to which my users (stored in a MySQL database on said server) authenticate. 1 file server running software TBD. In the past I've used lighttpd and mod_secdownload to secure the files on the file servers, and it's worked well(ish). I'm wondering if there is a way to do this using a com...

download a file from server and then delete on server.

ok i am downloading a file from a server and i plan to delete the file that i have downloaded on the server after it gets downloaded on the client side.. My download code is working fine but i dont know when to put the command to delete the file. string filepath = restoredFilename.ToString(); // Create New instance of File...

ubercart file download setting problem

Hi I am using drupal 6.x and ubercart 2.x. I trie dto create a product,but when it comes to add the file download feature I am getting some issue. I put a folder called downloads in the drupal folder and one file inside the download folder.then I gave the path as "drupal/downloads but it is telling that drupal/downloads is not a valid fi...

Internet Explorer removes .exe extension from download when followed by URL parameters

I am serving files from Amazon S3 now, and I generate a secure URL using the API. Works great everywhere except for people downloading .exe files in IE. I have tested this on IE 8 and 7. If running a local webserver you can test by putting notepad.exe in your web root. Go to http://localhost/notepad.exe (or equivalent) Now try http:/...

Download new app from within an iPhone-app

Hello, I have developed a game and are planning to make a "Lite" version of that game in order to promote the "Premium" version of the game. Information about how to make In-App-Purchase is easy to find. But what I cannot find is how to actually download the application from within my Lite-version, after the purchase. I do not intend to...

Is there any way I could get this behavior with cURL?

I am testing one of my server implementations and was wondering if I could make curl get embedded content? I mean, when a browser loads a page, it downloads all associated content too... Can someone please tell me how to do this with curl? I don't mind if it dumps even the binary data onto the terminal... I am trying to benchmark my ser...

download of large files slow when content-length specified (IIS7)

Hi, I have an asp.net web page to serve large file downloads to users. The page is hosted on IIS7, Windows Server 2008. The strange thing is that users can download at good speeds (2MB/s) when I don't add a content-length response header but as soon as I add this header, download speed drops to somewhere around 35kbps/s. This is the c...

Apache/PHP serving file multiple times

I have a system with a download.php page. The page takes and id and loads a file based on from the DB Record and then serves it up. I've noticed a couple instances where files are requested multiple times in short time spans (20ms). Times that are too quick for human input. There are plenty of instances where the downloader functions fin...

Downloading file from server for user logged in as guest

I have a code which allows you to download any file from server to your local host. This code works fine when i log in as administrator but when i log in as guest user it does not let me download.. and i get an error message saying.. External component has thrown an exception. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during t...

Dynamically generating download from UpdatePanel fails with PageRequestManagerParserErrorException

I am new to ASP.NET AJAX and am encountering a problem. The page uses an UpdatePanel and Timer to check for new results of a batch processing queue. When results are available, it should show links to download results files. I'm using a repeater to format the links, which use LinkButtons: <asp:LinkButton ID="linkOutputFile" runat="se...

Get the KB or speed of a download in .NET

Right now i use either HttpWebRequest or WebClient to download files. I would like to see how many kbytes per second i am currently downloading at. How may i do this? ...

How does SourceForge's download page work?

In answers to other questions it was pointed out that SourceForge's download page worked by adding a hidden <iframe>. This does no longer seem to be the case... How is the current version of the download page implemented? I'd like to build something similar because I consider SF's solution quite elegant. Ok, more precisely...True, the ...

Download file over HTTPS using .NET (part 2)

On a regular basis I have to do the following manually in a web browser: Go to an https website. Logon on a webform. Click a link to download a large file (135MB). I would like to automate this process using .NET. Some days ago I posted this question here. Thanks to a piece of code by Rubens Farias I am now able to perform the above...

JQuery - Fetching a URL that returns 404 on first few fetches, then returns 200

Fetch a URL - mywebiste.com/blah.php --> returns 404 Fetch a URL - mywebsite.com/blah.php --> returns 404 Fetch a URL - mywebsite.com/blah.php --> returns 404 Fetch a URL - mywebsite.com/blah.php --> returns 200 // how do I loop until this the URL returns 200? Previously phrased: So I have a URL (foo) that I need to download after m...