Feature Suggestion: Download Manager

[Kurt]

Hello Folks,
first i have to praise the maker of HFS

Its very great. Its smal and its working realy stable. Thats nothing trivial you can say about much software -.-

But, theres some little thing it could make it better then now

If you host a bigger file, and the client gots a disconnect, he has to start from beginning, right?

what about a small little (java? may be better activex?) download manager which resumes download?

what do you think dear community? is it completely useless? or would you like it?

Tell me your opinion

regards,
Kurt

[maverick]

It is up to your browser or download manager to have the option to resume.  HFS already supports resuming downloads.

[MarkV]

HFS supports resuming of downloads. Resuming of uploads is not possible with HTTP. There will be FTP support in the future (read the todo list) but don't hold your breath for it.

edit: corrected error

[ferran9]

I think this would be a great idea, but needs to be rephrased, actually since HFS already supports "downloads resume" what would be great is to have a template that has embedded some type of flash, java, javascript or ajax plugin that will allow download resuming.

[TSG]

Its a useless idea, just use a Download Manager like FDM, http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/ works a treat with HFS, i used it to download files from my friend just recently, and yes HFS is resumable, its up to the download manager to control the packets not HFS.







note: ignore the edits of your posts just fixed the mispelt title.

[tek123]

So lets say you have a big power point presentation like it happened to me, of lets say 300MB and I had to share it with over twenty of my university colleagues, for some reason most of them got the connection broken before getting the download complete so at the end I ended passing my file around all my colleagues through my usb memory key, how could I ask to all of them to install on their computers a download manager just for this file? The idea of having a File Server is that people can get my files through a web browser without having to install anything. The point is that an external manager is nice but to have an embedded one in the template frees up users off having to install anything.

[Flynsarmy]

It's generally common sense that if you want to download a large file you use a download manager. It
would be convenient to have a built in one in HFS (a java applet that's able to be called) but it would
take alot of work on Rejettos part. I suggest you write your own java applet to do this or google one.
There are probably some out there that do what you're looking for. You really should use a download
manager though. Free Download Manager is freeware and has alot of features.

[maverick]

how could I ask to all of them to install on their computers a download manager just for this file? The idea of having a File Server is that people can get my files through a web browser without having to install anything. The point is that an external manager is nice but to have an embedded one in the template frees up users off having to install anything.

You don't need a stand alone download manager to resume downloads.  Yes, it's nice to have one, but any good Browser like Opera or Firefox (forget IE) has their own built-in download managers.  You can resume downloads with these browsers and you don't have to get people to install a special program just to get your files when everybody uses a browser already.

[tek123]

But is the same for mp3 files, I sow there is a template for HFS that allows to play mp3 files right through the browser with a flash embedded player, the same could be said if this player didn't exist, that people should get a stand alone media player, download the file, and play it in the computer. Also I've seen a template that has built-in image preview. So the same thing with the download manager, one should be able to use a stand alone one or have a built in one so doesn't need to know anything about download managers, anyway I will see if I can find one and create a template with it myself. Still I think is a great idea.

[rejetto]

HFS supports resume since its birth.
I guess you are using Internet Explorer (version 6 ?), that's the problem. Any other software will do.

[Kurt]

YEs! Thats what i said

A Download Resuming Plugin (like the media player/browser) would be very great, BECAUSE so you dont need to force a user (whos has no clue what hes doing) for donloading a bigger file to instal a SEPARATELY application

Just have to click "yes, install this plugin from webpage" and then "ok"

what ever browser he has, not even necessary to ask whioch he uses

Regards,
kurt

[TSG]

YEs! Thats what i said

A Download Resuming Plugin (like the media player/browser) would be very great, BECAUSE so you dont need to force a user (whos has no clue what hes doing) for donloading a bigger file to instal a SEPARATELY application

Just have to click "yes, install this plugin from webpage" and then "ok"

what ever browser he has, not even necessary to ask whioch he uses

Regards,
kurt

What if he was a she , if you can do it go ahead by all means but we arent gonna work on it, its seems so futile to me.

[rejetto]

A Download Resuming Plugin (like the media player/browser) would be very great, BECAUSE so you dont need to force a user (whos has no clue what hes doing) for donloading a bigger file to instal a SEPARATELY application

it would be nice, yes, but it's a lot of work. i won't do that.

[Yves]

Salut chers amis

As download manager i recommend you Orbit Downloader, 35 languages, freeware http://www.orbitdownloader.com + http://dl.orbitdownloader.com/dl/OrbitDownloaderSetup.exe.

Tired of GetRight (always deleting my nice serial that i got from the internet) and of FreeDownloadManager (not working well here, limit at 2 GB-files) i'm using this new one, and i'm fully satisfied. Orbit Downloader works super with HFS !

[MarkV]

Just FYI, Firefox 3 will have a download manager built in, that supports resume (and much more).

@Yves: I'm using FDM 2.5 and have already downloaded files much larger than 2GB, even larger than 4GB.