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Explain please download file iphone

hi all ! i want to download plist from my server usibg http:// i have searched the web and everybody says use that class or that one ... but no example on how to do this. may be it is really simple but i'm a noob so if someone can explain or give a link he'll be my heroe thanks to all !!! ...

NSURLDownload Delegate from different Class

hi, I have a NSURLDownload object in one class file. What I want to do is a different class that calls it becoming its delegate so that the delegate calls such as - (void)download:(NSURLDownload *)download decideDestinationWithSuggestedFilename:(NSString *)filename gets called. I call the NSURLDownload containing class like this: [[Ac...

Using ASIHTTPRequest to download a file with Cocoa/MacRuby

I'm still trying to get a handle on Cocoa (both in Obj-C and MacRuby), and I'd really appreciate seeing how to download a file with ASIHTTPRequest (or without it) and MacRuby. Ideally, I'd like to be able show the progress inside a progress bar too. Must use a cocoa method for downloading, since open-uri in MacRuby is borken. Thanks fo...

How to download media content on demand and reuse from browser cache in silverlight

Hi. I have a problem with simple silverlight app, this app has a couple of buttons, each button sets mediaelement source to a short mp3 file and plays it, my problem is that when i press the same button second time it re-downloads mp3 file again but i think it shouldn't, instead it should use a copy of browser cached mp3 file that was do...

WML And Downloads

I'm now playing with WML and WMLScript, but I'm doing a site that will have some content to download(some txt, doc, bmp, mpg, avi and jpg files), but some of my friends(that never developed in this language, just used the technology on the beginning) said that it's impossible. Then here are my questions: It's possible? How to do it? ...

Why would HTTP transfer via wget be faster than lftp/pget?

I'm building software that needs to do massive amounts of file transfer via both HTTP and FTP. Often times, I get faster HTTP download with a multi-connection download accelerator like axel or lftp with pget. In some cases, I've seen 2x-3x faster file transfer using something like: axel http://example.com/somefile or lftp -e 'pget -n...

How can I implement a download rate limited in Java?

Hello, I'm going to implement a (simple) downloader application in Java as a personal exercise. It is going to run several jobs in different threads, in a way that I will be downloading a few files at the same time at all times during execution. I want to be able to define a download rate limit that is shared between all the download j...

how to display a dialog if user can't download file

hi. dealing with php/html/javascript. i'm trying to figure out a good/best approach to allowing a user to download a file. i can have the traditional href link, that interfaces with the back end php app to download the file. however, i want to have the app display some sort of dialog/alert if the user isn't able (basedon acl/permissio...

download part (one element) of a HTML page?

Is it possible to only download one part of a webpage, so like one element and its sub elements. If it is how would you do it in objective C? ...

Difference between Python urllib.urlretrieve() and wget

I am trying to retrieve a 500mb file using Python, and I have a script which uses urllib.urlretrieve(). There seems to some network problem between me and the download site, as this call consistently hangs and fails to complete. However, using wget to retrieve the file tends to work without problems. What is the difference between urlret...

How to estimate download time remaining (accurately)?

Sure you could divide the remaining file size by the current download speed, but if your download speed fluctuates (and it will), this doesn't produce a very nice result. What's a better algorithm for producing smoother countdowns? ...

Intermittent Download Error from PHP web application over SSL with IE7 IE8

These are large (20-60mb) quickbooks files. Seemingly at random, IE users who are downloading them get "server returned an invalid or unrecognized response", and the download fails. Works 100% of the time in other browsers. This is over SSL. These downloads are being forced, I've tried every variation of headers I have seen. Currentl...

How does one programmatically download files from the web?

How are files downloaded from servers in programming languages like C? I understand higher level languages have magic functions like "download_file_from_url()" but they don't help me understand what is actually going on. I'm a little familiar with sockets but network programming in general is still a black box to me. Thanks for any help....

Downloading all ctrl alt del webcomics using terminal.

I've tried using the following commands to download the ctrl alt del comics. $ for filename in $(seq 20021023 20100503); do wget http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comics/"$filename".jpg; done I get the following error code, "bash: syntax error near unexpected token 'do'" I've also tried using cURL, using this command, curl http://ctr...

Subdomain forwarding using .htaccess

I want to redirect a praticular subdomain to the main domain http(s)://dl.example.com/par1/par2 to http(s)://www.example.com/par1/par2 How to achieve the above using .htaccess Why i want to do this: Whenever any user download a file from my server, if the file is huge , then user cannot do any other operation until the file is downloa...

Python download without supplying a filename

How do I download a file with progress report using python but without supplying a filename. I have tried urllib.urlretrieve but I seem to have to supply a filename for the downloaded file to save as. So for example: I don't want to supply this: urllib.urlretrieve("http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.6.3&a...

Serving files with Turbogears2

How do I serve files from an arbitrary directory with Turbogears2? I have a database with the local path, e.g. /home/myuser/tg2env/MyProject/myproject/files/somefile.jpg tg.url seems to only be able to serve things from the public directory. Is there a widget available, or do I need to write some sort of DownloadController? ...

Android : Downloading and Displaying images simulataneously?

Hi, I'm having a situation in my current project where I want to Download a wallpaper image from network. I want to download the image in chunks and at the same time display whatever image that has been downloaded in a ImageView. Can someone let me know how to implement this? The type of Image that I would be downloading would be "PNG". ...

How to download data from internet with resume option..?

Hi, i am downloading content from server to my app. i am using NSUrlConnection to that in response i am getting data and i am storing that. But if user quits the app while downloading when he launches app next time i have to resume that download from where it stop(download remaining part). how to support this ... is any idea on how to h...

Downloading multimedia content in java from php pages

The url: http://www.teamliquid.net/replay/download.php?replay=1830 is a download link to a .rep file. My question is: how to download this content in java knowing the name of the original rep file in order to save it with a defined prefix, like path/_.rep //I was trying to run wget from java but I don't see how to get the original fil...