weird that they don't use C#. Kirk
Bill Robertson wrote: >> I don't believe that. Microsoft got burned on that once and today has >> something most would characterize as Java next gen. >> > > So if they did it on HDFS (a Hadoop thing) then what did they use? > (Since I'm too lazy to go look myself ;-) ) > > >> When I went to download Win7rc1, it was through a simple html option >> form. Do you have an URL to demonstrate this, most improbable, >> scenario? And what platform are you on? >> > > Went through download for it. Just google for windows 7, its the top > link. The world still loves a free ride after all. I'm on the mac > (as mentioned earlier ;-) ), using firefox. There was a warning about > starting a Java Applet (sigh). I expect if you went there under Linux > you'd get the same. > > Yeah, looking at the source, it first looks to see if it can use an > activex control for a download manager, and if it can't it sets up the > applet with the following Javascript. > > var sObjHTML = "<applet " + > " code=\"com.akamai.dm.ui.applet.DMApplet.class\" " + > " codebase=\"http://dlm.tools.akamai.com/dlmanager/versions/java > \" " + > " archive=\"dlm-java-2.2.4.8.jar\" " + > " name=\"Download Manager\" " + > " id=\"dm\" " + > " width=\"100%\" " + > " height=\"100%\" " + > " style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px;\" " + > " mayscript >" + > " <PARAM name=\"jscomm\" value=\"true\"/> " + > " <PARAM name=\"codebaseURL\" value=\"http:// > dlm.tools.akamai.com/dlmanager/versions/java/dlm-java-2.2.4.8.jar\"/> > " + > " <PARAM name=\"userAgent\" value=\"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; > Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090423 Firefox/3.5b4\"/ > >> " + >> > " <PARAM name=\"cookies\" value=\"" + document.cookie + "\"/> " > + > " <PARAM name=\"version\" value=\"2.2.4\"/> " + > " <PARAM name=\"URL\" value=\"http://wb.dlservice.microsoft.com/ > dl/download/release/windows7/4/0/c/ > 40c1e714-7910-4b38-9b5e-67fa522e6a44/7100.0.090421-1700_x86fre_client_en- > us_retail_ultimate-grc1culfrer_en_dvd.iso?lcid=1033&RURL=https:// > www.microsoft.com/betaexperience/productkeys/win7-rc-32/enus/\"/> " + > " <PARAM name=\"recoveryURL\" value=\"http:// > wb.dlservice.microsoft.com/download/release/windows7/4/0/c/ > 40c1e714-7910-4b38-9b5e-67fa522e6a44/7100.0.090421-1700_x86fre_client_en- > us_retail_ultimate-grc1culfrer_en_dvd.iso?lcid=1033&RURL=https:// > www.microsoft.com/betaexperience/productkeys/win7-rc-32/enus/\"/> " + > " <PARAM name=\"language\" value=\"en\"/> " + > " <PARAM name=\"providerName\" value=\"\"/> " + > " <PARAM name=\"maxCon\" value=\"4\"/> " + > " <PARAM name=\"maxConn\" value=\"4\"/> " + > " <PARAM name=\"requestSize\" value=\"1024\"/> " + > " <PARAM name=\"flushSize\" value=\"32\"/> " + > " <PARAM name=\"initialView\" value=\"summary\"/> " + > " <PARAM name=\"icon\" value=\"true\"/> " + > " <PARAM name=\"disregardQryStr\" value=\"true\"/> " + > " <PARAM name=\"launch\" value=\"no\"/> " + > " <PARAM name=\"closeWhenDone\" value=\"no\"/> " + > "</applet> "; > > If I were on a plane right now I would be looking for gremlins on the > wing. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
