Forums > Help! > Can't download from community-videos!

Posted: 30th Aug 2005
whoever wrote the video support for the photo galleries doesn't seem to quite understand (or hasn't read) the http protocol specs, as it doesn't output to the browser when you click the link what the filename or size of the video is. It's currently sending:



1 HTTP/1.1 200 OK

2 Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:35:51 GMT

3 Server: Apache/2.0.50 (Fedora)

4 X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.10

5 Connection: close

6 Content-Type: video/avi



It should also be sending "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"filename.avi\"", "Accept-Ranges: bytes" and "Content-Length: ". Basically at the moment, your browser knows it should be treated like an avi file but doesn't know the filename, so guesses given the filename on the server, which is a php file. It also has no idea what the size of it is either, so it won't show a percentage of how much is downloaded. Whether or not it will actually show on your computer depends how exactly it's setup, but the coding is currently quite amateurish.

Posted: 30th Aug 2005
red hats itch my scalp so.
whhy?!!??

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Posted: 31st Aug 2005
i get that at times - try clearing your temp files or just make note of the file name and rename it from display_usa when u save it.

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Posted: 1st Sep 2005
Just copy the link, open your media player of choice, and paste the URL in the box. There should be a "open URL" option in the file menue.

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Posted: 1st Sep 2005
Happy b-day sparkey!

I dont know whats worse! Not being able to d/l from hop or not having enough space left to upload your vidyo

Posted: 1st Sep 2005
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Posted: 1st Sep 2005
Thanks Bender Made my day...

Posted: 2nd Sep 2005
Right. Seem to have got it working okay now- with a bit of tinkery tinkering. Thanks for the tips!

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Posted: 4th Sep 2005
i just presumed that the save file name was left as display_usa.php as a leech deterrent.
This is sensible for a free website offering a king's bounty in multimedia downloads.
Mi'lord.

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Posted: 5th Sep 2005
i can think of less tacky ways to stop leechers

Posted: 5th Sep 2005
yes i agree, but you know that stalking is illegal in most places!

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Posted: 6th Sep 2005
cool, glad it helped. I assumed it was part of the photo software your using as opposed to something written by HoP, i wouldn't have slagged it off had i known