Re: Ang: downloading via Unite
Harry Lake <[email protected]> Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:49:41 +0200
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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 -- Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe