Re: Ang: downloading via Unite

Harry Lake <[email protected]> Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:49:41 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.opera.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 17:37 28-3-2010 CEST, Rolf wrote:
> >----Ursprungligt meddelande----
> >Från: [email protected]
> >Not for the first time, I've had the following problem. Download
> >stops at around 98.5% but light stays on green.[KA-SNIP] but if 
> you stop the download
>and look in
> >the folder the file is actually complete and will happily run all the
> >way to the end.
>
>Admittedly based upon a rumour, but: Once upon the time it was said 
>that a certain
>corporation decided to simplify for the users, and decided to cut 
>out the end message
>after a download, having the server and the browser cooperate in 
>"cheating". The IIS
>server didn't send out the end message, and the IE browser decided 
>singlehandedly that
>download was complete anyway. Other browsers of course could not 
>take that for granted,
>so there was a slight problem...
>
>Theoretically, could something like this be what is happening?


Interesting idea. No clue whether it could be true - I lack the expertise!

Cheers,

Harry

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