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How to download videos from cspan

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/ I want to be able to edit cspan videos, and have access to all of the newest content. I am already aware of the ogg-theora uploads from the folks at metavid.com, but they aren't always up to date and it would be nice to have control over the downloading process. ...

Download text or xml file with msi

Hi I have a scenario where users can log into their account on the web and download an msi file which will self install an application after downloading. I however also want to download a text or xml file with the msi which will contain some account information which the install application will need after it installs. But user should ho...

is it possbile to dowload one part of a file from web ?

lets say there is one very big file on some server and i just want to download first 1MB. How can I do it on Linux ? ...

PHP: force an image download from above directory root?

I'm attempting to force a download of an image that is in a directory above my website root. The download happens ok, and the correct filename is saved. However, the end-file is not a valid image and will not open or display properly. Here's my code: $photograph = new ViewPhotograph($photograph_id); $photograph->setPh...

How to download js file with webclient

I have a javascript -> c# array parser that I would like to feed with some .js files from the internet, so what I'd like is to download those files and have the interpreter run them through. Only problem is that I can't do this since there is no crossdomainpolicy on the sites that I dl from, but I don't get why that should be an obstacle...

Filename when downloading APK on Android

When I download a file on my Android phone from my webserver it save it as downloadfile.apk The file is saved on my server as MyApp.apk Do you know how to make the file appear as MyApp.apk in the downloaded files list on Android? I should also mention that to get the file to download and be understood by the phone I modified the ....

Loading NSMutableDictionary from URL

Hi, I'm currently doing this: NSMutableDictionary *dict = [[NSDictionary alloc] initWithContentsOfURL: [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://mysite/mypage.php"]]; Which is great, apart from when the data being returned is quite large, and it appears to time out. How could I get around this? Thanks in advance. ...

Automatic acknowledgement after downloading some content.

PersonA sends a link to download a content(say an ebook) to person B. is there a way to acknowledge personA automatically that the download is completed by PersonB? Thanks Senthil A Kumar ...

Traversing an ftp folder with python

I need to write a python script that traverses a folder on a FTP server. for file in ftpfolder: #get it #do something untoward with it Snippets and non-wheel-reinvention advice welcome. ...

Downloading a file from the Internet while being able to abort the download any time

Hello All! I'd like to download a file from my Delphi program in a separate thread dedicated to the download. The problem is that the main program can be closed any time (thus the download thread can be terminated any time as well). So even if there is no connection or the server lags for precious seconds I need a way to terminate the ...

Android write to sd card folder

Hey, I am using the following code to download a file from my server then write it to the root directory of the sd card, it all works fine: package com.downloader; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.InputStream; import java.net.HttpURLConnection; import java.net.URL; import android.os.Environment; im...

iOS: how to determine whether to download a normal or hires retina image?

Since the iPhone 4 came out, Apple has put forward the @2x filename technique to easily implement higher resolution pictures. That's great, but how about dynamic image downloading? Indeed, in my application I would like to avoid image scaling and unnecessary big downloads as much as possible, which could negatively impact the performanc...

Force download file with PHP giving empty file

The end goal is for the user to download a .csv file. Right now I'm just testing trying to download a simple text file: test.txt. The only thing in this file is the word "test". Here is the HTML code for files_to_download.php Test file: <a href='test.php?file=test.txt'>Test.txt</a> Code for test.php: if(!(empty($_GET["file"]))) { ...

download aspx page

hi i'm using this code, HttpWebRequest myHttpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://localhost:51659/jobpoint3.0/Default4.aspx"); WebClient client = new WebClient(); string filename = @"C:/Users/leema/" + txtsave.Text; client.DownloadFile("http://localhost:51659/jobpoint3.0/Default4.aspx", @"C:/Users/leema/"+ txtsave....

changing the PostBackUrl in ASP.net after a file download

I have a ASP.net which allows users to select a number of inputs and dropdown lists to filter the report and to download an Excel report after pressing a button on that same form. The page can be used mulitple times, by changing the inputs and pressing the download button each time. The button should be posting back to the hidden IFRA...

How to download existing file in PHP

I have a pdf file on my server. I want to create such link that, user can click on it and download that pdf file. I am using Zend frame work with Php. ...

Export to Excel using c#(in webapplication)

i have done Export to Excel code from Gridview to Excel Sheet. i have got the download Dialog box. How to Get the Button Value whether the datas are saved/Downloaded or Dialog box is closed by hitting cancel button ..... i want to identify the button hitted is Save or Cancel in the Download dialog Box. code : public void Export(Gri...

How to hook download in Chrome extension?

I need to write a Chrome extension that gets notified everytime a download is initiated or about to begin. The extension also needs to be able to prevent the download from continuing. I tried searching everywhere for ways to do this... but I wasn't getting anywhere. How would I go about doing this? Is there some function I can call to ...

Simple torrent system in PHP?

I need to be able to manage some torrent downloads on my server with some good old php, basically i would upload the .torrent file, and would like the php script to download the torrent file(s) in the torrent, and zip them. and while its doing this, have a page that could output the progress and statistics... im not even sure where to st...

How to hook the download dialog in a Firefox extension?

I'm writing a Firefox extension and I need to hook the download dialog that comes up when the user tries to download a file. In other words, I need a script-defined function to be notified instead of the dialog appearing as normal. Where do I begin? I tried reading through the XPCOM API Reference... but this is the closest thing I coul...