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SharePoint - Posting and Retrieving files Automatically via VBScript

Hello All, I'm going to need to push and pull files from a SharePoint site that is not hosted by my company (it is external). I'm only going to get a few days (if that) to get this working so I don't have much time to experiment. To add to my requirements/headaches, I'm going to have to implement this with VBScript. .Net would be pref...

How to set download location for a link?

I want to create a link where when I click on it, it will download a file to a specific location (the Desktop) on the user's computer (basically the "save link as..." dialog will pop up with the Desktop as the default location). Is this possible at all? Any suggestions on how to go about it? Thanks! ...

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Redistributable

Does anyone know where to download the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Redistributable? I sure would like to have it so I don't have to download the service pack for every install. ...

Showing page load progress with JavaScript

I am retrieving a list of files from a web service and displaying them as links. When someone clicks on the link, the file should start downloading. The problem is that no direct access to the file exists. Here is the process to download a file: User clicks on link Server calls web service to retrieve file Browser is loading for as lon...

Download contents of the PHP generated page from another PHP script

I have a PHP script on a server that generates the XML data on the fly, say with Content-Disposition:attachment or with simple echo, doesn't matter. I'll name this file www.something.com/myOwnScript.php On another server, in another PHP script I want to be able to get this file (to avoid "saving file to disk") as a string (using the pat...

Advice request: Serve local folder through rails (or not?).

Hello, The task: Serve the files located in a local folder on the server to clients over http/80. In the end, I plan to emulate the folder on the client but that doesn't concern my question. So, there is an existing Rails app (rest based/xml) on that server that the clients would use in conjunction with these files. I don't need any l...

How to download a file using python in a 'smarter' way?

I need to download several files via http in Python. The most obvious way to do it is just using urllib2: import urllib2 u = urllib2.urlopen('http://server.com/file.html') localFile = open('file.html', 'w') localFile.write(u.read()) localFile.close() But I'll have to deal with the URLs that are nasty in some way, say like this: http:...

Force-Download with php on Amazon S3

I am trying to use http://code.google.com/p/amazon-s3-php-class/ to force-dowload files from AWS S3. I have an mp3 that I want people to "play" or "download." By default the when you access the file directly on s3 it begins to play in the browser. I need to add an option to actually download. I have Googled and found came up with nothing...

Redirecting to a "Thank you" page and offering the save dialog of downloaded file immediately

I am using ASP.NET2.0. I have created a download form with some input fields and a download button. When the download button is clicked, I want to redirect the user to a "Thank you for downloading..." page and immediately offer him/her the file to save. I have this following code to show the savefile dialog: public partial class ThankY...

Run MySQL Query after wget finishes downloading file

I need to run a specific mysql query upon wget, which is running in the background, finishes downloading a file. For example... wget http://domain/file.zip then run: UPDATE table SET status = 'live' WHERE id = '1234' How would I go about doing this? ...

How can I allow a download to pause/resume?

Normally, when I want to allow a user to download a file without revealing the exact location, I just use something like this to let them download the file: header("Pragma: public"); header("Expires: 0"); header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0"); header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream"); header("Conten...

A problem with downloading a file with Python

Hello, I try to automatically download a file by clicking on a link on the webpage. After clicking on the link, I get the 'File Download' Window dialog with 'Open', 'Save' and 'Cancel' buttons. I would like to click the Save button. I use watsup library in the following way: from watsup.winGuiAuto import * optDialog = findTopWindow(w...

Is there any library to find out urls of embedded flvs in a webpage?

I'm trying to write a script which can automatically download gameplay videos. The webpages look like dota.sgamer.com/Video/Detail/402 and www.wfbrood.com/movie/spl2009/movie_38214.html, they have flv player embedded in the flash plugin. Is there any library to help me find out the exact flv urls? or any other ideas to get it? Many than...

downloading all files using ftp and C#

Hello. What is the best way to download all files in a remote directory using C# and FTP and save them to a local directory? thanks ...

Downloading the contents of a web directory?

If I have example.com/dir and dir is basically a folder in the example.com server then how can I download the conteents of the folder to my hard drive? ...

Specifying a target folder for Eclipse 3.4+ plugins when installing via Software Updates

After searching around I see that eclipse 3.4/3.5 now allow you to use their 'dropin' folder to manually install plugins. This works well in a situation where you have already downloaded the feature and plugin files, however in cases where you use the Software Updates feature to simply point to a URL and download a plugin, you don't app...

Automated website folder backup system needed? Any recommendations?

Hi guys is there any backup software that can take periodic backups of online website folders and store them offline on a local system. Need something robust and would be nice if theres something free that can do the job :) Thanks for the links - I have ftp access and its my website and its a bit of a documents sharing website with us...

Load file after page is complete without redirecting

Hi, I am trying to do pretty much the same, as is for example on sourceforge. After a user creates some data, i generate a file and i want it to be offered to him after a page loads. However, i know almost nothing about javascript and simple copy paste of < script type="text/javascript"> var download_url = "http://downloads.sourceforge....

ASP.NET stream content from memory and not from file

The users have requested the option to "download" a csv file representation of GridView contents. Does anyone know how to do this without saving the file to the server but rather just streaming it to the user from memory? Thanks ...

CakePHP Media view download directly from a string

I have a CakePHP controller action where I would like to let the user download an HTML page for publishing through our internal CMS. I'm thinking that the notion of a Media View is what I want, except that they seem to require a filename and path. I already have the HTML content stored in a string and if possible I would like to be able ...