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There's an extension for Firefox called Magpie that will allow you to
download all files of certain extensions on a page to a directory. Look it
up on extensionsmirror.nl.

XemonerdX

> One of my common needs is to download several data files from a web
> page.  Using MSIE 6 I seem to be limited to selecting one file at a
> time.  This is a bit of a nuisance as it requires interrupting other
> work to go back to the page to select the next in line, etc etc.

Phred wrote:
> One of my common needs is to download several data files from a web 
> page.  Using MSIE 6 I seem to be limited to selecting one file at a 
> time.  This is a bit of a nuisance as it requires interrupting other 
> work to go back to the page to select the next in line, etc etc.

> It occurs to me that there *should* be some simple way to do this -- 
> maybe even within MSIE itself (but, if so, it escapes me 8-).
>
> Phred.

***   I would suggest that you upgrade to Opera. It's a far superior
browser.

Richard

Several such as wGrabber, NetSpider, and Black Widow.

wGrabber so far is the best and the easyiest.


"Phred" <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:2sqev6F1ljko0U1@uni-berlin.de...
> G'day mates,
>
> One of my common needs is to download several data files from a web
> page.  Using MSIE 6 I seem to be limited to selecting one file at a
> time.  This is a bit of a nuisance as it requires interrupting other
> work to go back to the page to select the next in line, etc etc.
>
> It occurs to me that there *should* be some simple way to do this -- 
> maybe even within MSIE itself (but, if so, it escapes me 8-).
>
> Does anyone know an application or script (run from a batch file or
> command line would be *very* convenient :) that can do this sort of
> thing, please?
>
> Only needs to be very simple.  Bells and whistles not required; just
> the ability to point to a page, select the files, and download to a
> selected directory.
>
> Something that works under Windows 9x/ME/2000/XP would be great!
> Failing that, just ME/XP would be good.  And, failing that, just XP
> would be acceptable.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Cheers, Phred.
>
> -- 
> ppnerkDELETE@THISyahoo.com.INVALID
>

Phred wrote:
> G'day mates,
>
> One of my common needs is to download several data files from a web
> page.  Using MSIE 6 I seem to be limited to selecting one file at a
> time.  This is a bit of a nuisance as it requires interrupting other
> work to go back to the page to select the next in line, etc etc.


You have to select them individually but you can do so consecutively; i.e.,
select one, it's d/l window opens...select the next, another d/l window
opens...etc.

Or, you could use any of many download managers that let you browse the page
and make multiple selections.  You could do the same thing with an FTP
program.

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"Phred" <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:2sqev6F1ljko0U1@uni-berlin.de...
> It occurs to me that there *should* be some simple way to do this -- 
> maybe even within MSIE itself (but, if so, it escapes me 8-).

It can be done fairly easily. If you know VBScript you can go to 
http://paulsadowski.com/WSH/ and look at the script for getting binary 
files. You'd have to modify it to open a file with the URLs and get each.

I actually wrote a GUI bsed file grabber in VB for someone. It limits what 
extension it will grab though. It's designed for vids and pix. But it's 
fairly easy to write applications like that that use IE in a hidden window.

> Does anyone know an application or script (run from a batch file or
> command line would be *very* convenient :) that can do this sort of
> thing, please?
>
> Only needs to be very simple.  Bells and whistles not required; just
> the ability to point to a page, select the files, and download to a
> selected directory.

In this case you'd probably do best getting a copy of wget for windows. You 
can then make a batch file that sequentially calls wget with the desired 
URLs.
 http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/wgetwin.html
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&q=wget+windows


-- 
Paul R. Sadowski
Microsoft MVP (MSN Client)
http://www.paulsadowski.com/

In article <2sqev6F1ljko0U1@uni-berlin.de>, Phred 
(ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com) says...
> 
> Does anyone know an application or script (run from a batch file or 
> command line would be *very* convenient :) that can do this sort of 
> thing, please?
> 

If you install FreshDownload the option 'Download All with FD' is 
added to the context menu. It's still there even if FD isn't defined 
as your default downloader.

On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 15:40:49 GMT, ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com (Phred)
wrote:

>G'day mates,
>
>One of my common needs is to download several data files from a web 
>page.  Using MSIE 6 I seem to be limited to selecting one file at a 
>time.  This is a bit of a nuisance as it requires interrupting other 
>work to go back to the page to select the next in line, etc etc.
>
>It occurs to me that there *should* be some simple way to do this -- 
>maybe even within MSIE itself (but, if so, it escapes me 8-).
>
>Does anyone know an application or script (run from a batch file or 
>command line would be *very* convenient :) that can do this sort of 
>thing, please?
>
>Only needs to be very simple.  Bells and whistles not required; just 
>the ability to point to a page, select the files, and download to a 
>selected directory.
>
>Something that works under Windows 9x/ME/2000/XP would be great!
>Failing that, just ME/XP would be good.  And, failing that, just XP 
>would be acceptable.
>
>Thanks for your time.
>

KybIE GetEmAll (www.1keytools.com) allows you to do exactly this with
IE. 

Go to the page with the links in IE. 
Select the links.
Press F7

The selected files will be saved in a cache directory.
You can view them by selecting from a list -or- pressing F8 to see
each one in turn in IE.

The lite version (free) will allow up to 2 sets of pages with 20 pages
each. The pro version (not free) is unlimited.

David. 1keytools. 

Software author. (please edit my email addr. to prove you're not a dumb 'bot)
Kybie GetEmAll - Make IE an offline browser http://www.1keytools.com/offline_browser.htm
Kyboma CSS tutor by example - find stylesheet examples http://www.1keytools.com/html_tutor.htm

> One of my common needs is to download several data files from a web 
> page.  Using MSIE 6 I seem to be limited to selecting one file at a 
> time.  This is a bit of a nuisance as it requires interrupting other 
> work to go back to the page to select the next in line, etc etc.


Internet Explorer limits the number of concurrent sessions to a web 
server, to comply with the HTTP 1.1 Specification (RFC 2068) ...

   9.1.2)
   <snip>
   Clients that use persistent connections SHOULD limit the number of
   simultaneous connections that they maintain to a given server. A
   single-user client SHOULD maintain AT MOST 2 connections with any
   server or proxy.
   (from http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2068/rfc2068)

This means you can download at most two files at a time, when using IE.

Some other browsers allow you to have more concurrent sessions; however 
these browsers are devaiting from W3C and RFC standards.

There are two main ways you can work around this:

1) use a client-side download manager. The download manager (at least, 
good ones) will serialise the file requests automatically for you, so 
that while you're still only downloading max 2 files at a time, it 
remembers what files you want and sends further requests as sessions 
become available. This is the most "correct" way to solve the problem.

There are a number of commercial, shareware and free download managers, 
out there on the web.

2) If you don't mind being a hog, you can increase the number of 
simultaneous HTTP sessions that Internet Explorer will provide. You can 
do this by editing the registry. The steps are described in Knowledgebase 
article 183110:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;183110


There might be other reasons to consider using an alternative browser to 
Internet Explorer, but the download limit is not one of them! ;-)

Hope it helps,
Andrew

> One of my common needs is to download several data files from a web 
> page.  Using MSIE 6 I seem to be limited to selecting one file at a 
> time.  This is a bit of a nuisance as it requires interrupting other 
> work to go back to the page to select the next in line, etc etc.


Internet Explorer limits the number of concurrent sessions to a web 
server, to comply with the HTTP 1.1 Specification (RFC 2068) ...

   9.1.2)
   <snip>
   Clients that use persistent connections SHOULD limit the number of
   simultaneous connections that they maintain to a given server. A
   single-user client SHOULD maintain AT MOST 2 connections with any
   server or proxy.
   (from http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2068/rfc2068)

This means you can download at most two files at a time, when using IE.

Some other browsers allow you to have more concurrent sessions; however 
these browsers are devaiting from W3C and RFC standards.

There are two main ways you can work around this:

1) use a client-side download manager. The download manager (at least, 
good ones) will serialise the file requests automatically for you, so 
that while you're still only downloading max 2 files at a time, it 
remembers what files you want and sends further requests as sessions 
become available. This is the most "correct" way to solve the problem.

There are a number of commercial, shareware and free download managers, 
out there on the web.

2) If you don't mind being a hog, you can increase the number of 
simultaneous HTTP sessions that Internet Explorer will provide. You can 
do this by editing the registry. The steps are described in Knowledgebase 
article 183110:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;183110


There might be other reasons to consider using an alternative browser to 
Internet Explorer, but the download limit is not one of them! ;-)

Hope it helps,
Andrew

On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 15:40:49 GMT, ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com (Phred)
wrote:

>G'day mates,
>
>One of my common needs is to download several data files from a web 
>page.  Using MSIE 6 I seem to be limited to selecting one file at a 
>time.  This is a bit of a nuisance as it requires interrupting other 
>work to go back to the page to select the next in line, etc etc.
>
>It occurs to me that there *should* be some simple way to do this -- 
>maybe even within MSIE itself (but, if so, it escapes me 8-).
>
>Does anyone know an application or script (run from a batch file or 
>command line would be *very* convenient :) that can do this sort of 
>thing, please?
>
>Only needs to be very simple.  Bells and whistles not required; just 
>the ability to point to a page, select the files, and download to a 
>selected directory.
>
>Something that works under Windows 9x/ME/2000/XP would be great!
>Failing that, just ME/XP would be good.  And, failing that, just XP 
>would be acceptable.

In my experience, multiple simultaneous downloads from the same server
tend to take longer than automated sequential downloads.  Firefox
allows Ctrl click to activate a link in a background tab, but the
cross platform standard tool - if you know the URLs or want all the
files on a page - for this sort of thing is wget.  wget retrieves the
files sequentially and is very configurable (and free).


--
T.E.D. (tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu)

"Richard Bonner" <ak621@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote in message
news:ck92t9$5j7$1@News.Dal.Ca...
> Phred wrote:
> > One of my common needs is to download several data files from a web
> > page.  Using MSIE 6 I seem to be limited to selecting one file at a
> > time.  This is a bit of a nuisance as it requires interrupting other
> > work to go back to the page to select the next in line, etc etc.
>
> > It occurs to me that there *should* be some simple way to do this -- 
> > maybe even within MSIE itself (but, if so, it escapes me 8-).
> >
> > Phred.
>
> ***   I would suggest that you upgrade to Opera. It's a far superior
> browser.

Thats not a very helpful answer. You havent even indicated whether his
request can be accommodated in Opera

"Phred" <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:2sqev6F1ljko0U1@uni-berlin.de...
> G'day mates,
>
> One of my common needs is to download several data files from a web
> page.  Using MSIE 6 I seem to be limited to selecting one file at a
> time.  This is a bit of a nuisance as it requires interrupting other
> work to go back to the page to select the next in line, etc etc.
>
> It occurs to me that there *should* be some simple way to do this -- 
> maybe even within MSIE itself (but, if so, it escapes me 8-).
>
> Does anyone know an application or script (run from a batch file or
> command line would be *very* convenient :) that can do this sort of
> thing, please?


wget.exe


write  a batch file that runs through and downloads the files by url..

simple.

Michael wrote:

> "Richard Bonner" <ak621@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:
> > Phred wrote:
> > > One of my common needs is to download several data files from a web
> > > page.  Using MSIE 6 I seem to be limited to selecting one file at a
> > > time.  This is a bit of a nuisance as it requires interrupting other
> > > work to go back to the page to select the next in line, etc etc.
> >
> > > It occurs to me that there *should* be some simple way to do this -- 
> > > maybe even within MSIE itself (but, if so, it escapes me 8-).
> > >
> > > Phred.
> >
> > ***   I would suggest that you upgrade to Opera. It's a far superior
> > browser.

> That's not a very helpful answer. 

***   I realised that after I posted, but was in a rush and didn't
go back to expand on it.


> You havent even indicated whether his request can be accommodated in
> Opera

***   No, but the inference would be that it can. 

   I don't have Opera but have had it demoed to me and use it from time
to time at friend's homes. One of the things showed to me was multiple
clicking on various links and the ability to do various things with those
links afterwards. 

          Richard Bonner
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ak621/DOS/

Hey Phred, here's how you do it in Opera!!

Get to the page that has all the "downloadable" linked files ( e.g.
links to pdf docs)

TYpe CTRL-J

The new special page that pops up has all the links listed from the
prev page. You can refine this list by ( for example) typing ".pdf" in
the search field that is available. Only the links with .pdf will
remain in the window pane. Select some or all of the links and right
click. Then choose "Quick download" to save all the linked files to
your default download directory. Or choose "Save as" and you will be
presented with a download prompt for each downloadable linked file.

Once you get used to it, the process is very fast.

ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com (Phred) wrote in message news:<2sqev6F1ljko0U1@uni-berlin.de>...
> G'day mates,
> One of my common needs is to download several data files from a web page.