Force Download

[spyrorocks]

OK, this question is for guys who know a litle about web-based autoit.

Im trying to make my script popup the download screen to download a file, but the script does some processing first and the user cannot know the direct link to the file. This is what i got so far:

consolewrite("HTTP/1.1 200 OK" & @LF)
consolewrite("Content-Type: application/force-download" & @LF)
consolewrite('Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary' & @LF);
consolewrite('Content-Length: '&filegetsize('hello.exe') &@LF);
consolewrite('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="hello.exe"' & @LF & @LF)
consolewrite(binarystring(fileread("hello.exe")))

it pops up the download screen, saves it, but the downlaoded data is corruptred.

Any ideas what im doing wrong?

[NELyon]

What happens if you just use a regular HTML file? Maybe hello.exe is corrupted itself

[spyrorocks]

Its not. Trust me.

I dont want a regular html file, i need a exe or zip that will download.

[SuperMcFlourish]

consolewrite(binarystring(fileread("hello.exe")))

the exe is already a binary string i believe, which autoit doesn't support raw, maybe try this

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=21815

[spyrorocks]

Well, i dont know what thats supposto mean..

[SuperMcFlourish]

but it returns MZ, unless you know of a workaround?

[spyrorocks]

It returns 3 bytes of the data that is supposto be 16 kb. Maybe read each character at once, then return it as a binary string?

[Bert]

several questions...

1. Why can't the user know?

2. Why does it need to be forced?

3. Why can't the user know the direct link to the file?

All this is VERY suspicious, as in you are trying to do a nono .... as in trying to hijack someone's PC...

Could you explain the whole thing you are trying to do, and not just the part you are having trouble with?

[AzKay]

several questions...

1. Why can't the user know?

2. Why does it need to be forced?

3. Why can't the user know the direct link to the file?

All this is VERY suspicious, as in you are trying to do a nono .... as in trying to hijack someone's PC...

Could you explain the whole thing you are trying to do, and not just the part you are having trouble with?

If he wanted to hijack a pc, he would just probly use an INetGet. Lol.

Anyway, They'll be able to find the direct link anyway with any type of packet sniffer.

[CoePSX]

Set the mime type to application/octet-stream. It's common to do this in php for download redirectors.

header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');

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EDIT: sorry, i miss understood the problem.

Edited January 19, 2007 by CoePSX