Detected download complete, IIS6 & IE

[Jay Hayman]

Hi Guys, just been trying to figure something out....without having to
create my own download manager is there a way using dotnet and IIS6 to
detect when a http download from a web site has completed in IE or
Netscrape? Is there some kind of custom HTTP header I could use?

- Jay.

 

[seb_gibbs]

You would need to create a page to handle the download request. This page could be a small popup box, that could message the parent window once finished.

something like..

turn off screen buffering
set a long script timeout period
get download request
open requested file
send correct http header
send file contents
close file

then do what ever you want after download finishes...


downloading binary files may be a problem though.

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