Save Dialog Box

ramone_johnny · Post by **ramone_johnny** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 10:36 pm

Hi guys,
We are allowing patrons within the library to download applications to a secondary partition on the public workstations and burn to cd. To this point we have been successful in this configuration. I have a question though in regards to the save as dialog box.

Is it possible to force a silent download without the prompt appearing on screen? We have set the INI file to 'SaveAsDirectory=D:' which is fine, but the prompt still shows. Ideally it would be great if when the user clicked on save, the download commenced straight to D drive. We are using AD and GP to restrict software installs so run isnt an issue.

Can this be done?

Thanks,
John

Post by **Scott** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 8:40 am

John,

If you use the Windows XP policy "Run only allowed Windows applications", even though the "Open" button is present on the File Download dialog, it will not allow the application to open the file.

We are working on a restriced save add-on for PWB that will work in a similar fashion as described. We currently do not have a time line for this project.

Did you have a look at the ManageDL/TDownload project? This project was canceled because it was not 100% effective. It did not work on sites that require cookie based authentication for file downloads such as Hotmail. The new restricted save add-on for PWB is taking the ManageDL/TDownload applications place.

--Scott

ramone_johnny · Post by **ramone_johnny** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 8:00 pm

Hi Scott,
As an alternative we have customised a download manager called TrueDownloadManager that automatically handles downloads within the browser. We've created a secure interface that bypasses the open, run and save as options completely. It points directly to the desired location and does not prompt the user in any way. We have tested this successfully within IE with no problems.

However when using this application within PWB, for some reason PWB ignores the download manager and calls the standard IE save as dialoge box. Why would this be the case?

Any suggestions?

Were 99% there, we just need to have the PWB browser call the download manager!

John

Post by **Scott** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 9:13 pm

Do you have a link to the "TrueDownloadManager" web site? Searching Google does not yield much.

--Scott

ramone_johnny · Post by **ramone_johnny** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 9:27 pm

Scott,

Sorry its called TrueDownload.

John

Post by **Scott** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 9:36 pm

The only thing I am finding is "TrueDownloader", is this it?

http://francis.dupont.free.fr/truedownloader/

--Scott

ramone_johnny · Post by **ramone_johnny** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 9:43 pm

I guess it wouldve been a whole lot easier to just give you the link

http://francis.dupont.free.fr/truedownloader/

John

Post by **Scott** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 9:56 pm

This application runs as a Internet Explorer Browser Helper Object (BHO). Unfortunately PWB does not support Internet Explorer BHOs.

Going over the source code it looks like it is possible to use the Microsoft Download Manager Interface instead of running it as a BHO, but it will have the same problem ManageDL has in the fact that web sites that use cookie based authentication such as Hotmail will not work. This has been confirmd with Microsoft.

We are working on a PWB add-on Download Manager and hopefully we should have it working relatively soon.

--Scott

ramone_johnny · Post by **ramone_johnny** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:00 pm

I was hoping you wouldnt say that!

John