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Robbie Hatley
(Second attempt. Hmmm... No responses at all to first attempt.
Ok. I'll try again. I'll also post to the IE6 group, though
I'm not really sure if this is an IE6 problem or a Win2000
problem the two are so tightly intertwined.)
I've been having a problem recently on two different computers,
both running IE6 and Windows 2000 Professional: when downloading
files from the Internet, the download often stops at 50KB, with
Windows thinking that the download is complete, even if the actual
file size was 1.38MB or 11.85MB or whatever. Once this happens,
it can take many further attempts to get the download to complete.
I did find a partial work-around, by accident: if I empty
the temporary Internet files, the next attempt to download
the file usually succeeds. It's as if Windows sees a 50KB
file named "Fred.zip" in it's cache, says "ah-ha, the user is
attempting to download "Fred.zip", and I've already cached
that file, so I'll just give the user the cached version!"
Windows doesn't bother to check that the cached version is
COMPLETE.
So, what would cause Windows to think that a 50KB partial
download of an 11MB file is "complete"? (Seems like a bug.)
And why does it keep offering-up the same 50KB piece of trash
as being an 11MB file? (Seems like a second bug.)
Are there any workarounds for these bugs, other than emptying
the cache and trying again? That is, is there some way to
keep downloads from cutting off at the 50KB mark (it's always
almost exactly 50KB) in the first place?
And why 50KB? If downloads are going to fail, why not at
11.7KB or 1.53MB or whatever? Is there something magic about
this number? Some check or decision that is made at that
point?
--
Puzzled,
Robbie Hatley
lone wolf aatt well dott com
www dott well dott comm slant user slant lonewolf slant
Ok. I'll try again. I'll also post to the IE6 group, though
I'm not really sure if this is an IE6 problem or a Win2000
problem the two are so tightly intertwined.)
I've been having a problem recently on two different computers,
both running IE6 and Windows 2000 Professional: when downloading
files from the Internet, the download often stops at 50KB, with
Windows thinking that the download is complete, even if the actual
file size was 1.38MB or 11.85MB or whatever. Once this happens,
it can take many further attempts to get the download to complete.
I did find a partial work-around, by accident: if I empty
the temporary Internet files, the next attempt to download
the file usually succeeds. It's as if Windows sees a 50KB
file named "Fred.zip" in it's cache, says "ah-ha, the user is
attempting to download "Fred.zip", and I've already cached
that file, so I'll just give the user the cached version!"
Windows doesn't bother to check that the cached version is
COMPLETE.
So, what would cause Windows to think that a 50KB partial
download of an 11MB file is "complete"? (Seems like a bug.)
And why does it keep offering-up the same 50KB piece of trash
as being an 11MB file? (Seems like a second bug.)
Are there any workarounds for these bugs, other than emptying
the cache and trying again? That is, is there some way to
keep downloads from cutting off at the 50KB mark (it's always
almost exactly 50KB) in the first place?
And why 50KB? If downloads are going to fail, why not at
11.7KB or 1.53MB or whatever? Is there something magic about
this number? Some check or decision that is made at that
point?
--
Puzzled,
Robbie Hatley
lone wolf aatt well dott com
www dott well dott comm slant user slant lonewolf slant