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On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 05:22 PM, Joris Bontje wrote: > With HTML / HTTP downloads you can't detect if a download is completed. > You can redirect the user direct to a page though and let the > download start when that page is loaded. Glad to see we're thinking in the same direction. On the same page, so to speak. > If you put the following META tag in the the head element of your > website, then the download will start automatically after 1 second: > <meta HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="1; > URL=http://http://www.mysite.com/MyDownload.zip";> Nice trick. > It is smart to still put a link to the download on the 'thanks' page, > so > the user can download it again if ze accidently pressed Cancel. > > ! Keep in mind that everybody can get the url of the download file > from the source of the orderform ! Indeed, and when Annelie's site gets really successful she can hire a programmer to generate dynamic download file names, do refer-checking, etc. Or just get a Perl book and figure it out herself. :-) Of course, even with this solution there's no way to stop people from just copying the already downloaded bits around. I suppose if it were a really hot product it could eventually make it to a P2P sharing network and get swapped around. But now we're getting into the whole question of "How do you sell a sequence of bits?" :-) Personally I find that an interesting question because that's all I sell for a living -- sequences of bits. >> Is it possible to automatically initiate a second download after the >> first >> download completed? (Stupid question, I guess!!) > > Since you can't trigger an event after a download is finished, doing a > second one after the first isn't possible too. Right -- all the more evidence for the intermediate Download Page. Thanks for the great info, Joris. - -- Patrick http://fexl.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 iQA/AwUBPjBvFFA7g7bodUwLEQJzjQCg2q4kYLZYD6ktWOegIXyH3PRA6coAoIOR FRnk0XplS5MiYENGzcBJvHtM =OKvz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
