Downlaod Manager for `Complex Downloads?

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Howard Schwartz

Increasingly, I find download managers will not download files from
websites, because these sites do not have simple links to the files.
Instead, pressing `download' may start several pages of questions,
license agreements and so on, followed by some on-site CGI script
that runs a program that conceals the file's location, or uses
javascript or your local java virtual machine, etc. etc.

Are there any downloaders that can use the facilities a browser
has to successfully accomplish these kinds of downloads?
 
Howard said:
Increasingly, I find download managers will not download files from
websites, because these sites do not have simple links to the files.
Instead, pressing `download' may start several pages of questions,
license agreements and so on, followed by some on-site CGI script
that runs a program that conceals the file's location, or uses
javascript or your local java virtual machine, etc. etc.

Are there any downloaders that can use the facilities a browser
has to successfully accomplish these kinds of downloads?

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==== I use and recommend "FreeDownloadManager" , it intergrates well
with Firefox, but you still may need to go through pages of html before
getting the the download ....... you can usually see the address of the
download link at the bottom of your browser when you mouse over the
"download" button, if it says www.something.html , it's another web
page,if it says ftp:something.zip , then it's the download link ====
 
Increasingly, I find download managers will not download files from
websites, because these sites do not have simple links to the files.
Instead, pressing `download' may start several pages of questions,
license agreements and so on, followed by some on-site CGI script
that runs a program that conceals the file's location, or uses
javascript or your local java virtual machine, etc. etc.

Are there any downloaders that can use the facilities a browser
has to successfully accomplish these kinds of downloads?
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Free Download Manager rarely misses a download for me. That's right "out of
the box" with no tweaking.

-- Bob
 
When I whent to the Website for FreeDownloadManager, it claimed you
needed Internet Explorer 5 or higher as a requirement to run it (!). I
long ago purged most aspects of IE from my PC, with that australiam
program, iradicator. Possibly you need some of the dll files, that only
come with explorer.

Will freedownloadmanager work, without the IE specific dll files?
 
When I whent to the Website for FreeDownloadManager, it claimed you
needed Internet Explorer 5 or higher as a requirement to run it (!). I
long ago purged most aspects of IE from my PC, with that australiam
program, iradicator. Possibly you need some of the dll files, that only
come with explorer.

Will freedownloadmanager work, without the IE specific dll files?




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Hi,
I use Firefox & Free Download Manager. It has an option in settings to
monitor Firefox or Mozilla. It works great. I also set it to watch the
clipboard. You need to check the files it monitors setting, you can add any
filetype you like.
s...
 
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