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Re: HTTP Downloading

#539
From: Malcolm Messiter
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 00:00
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Thanks Ric!

I am still stuck there - and for the moment mystified. Data missing at the
far end I could understand - but at the start only?!

Best wishes

Malcolm



Ric Harwood <ric@discoveryinternational.com> wrote in article
<33aeec65.18761822@news.demon.co.uk>...
> In demon.ip.support.winsock, on Tue, 17 Jun 1997 12:16:44 GMT
> "Malcolm Messiter" <malcolm@messiter.demon.co.uk>, wrote:
> 
> >Hi!
> >
> >I wonder if you know the answer to this one ...
> 
> Someone in d.i.developers may be able to.
> Crossposted and follow-up set.
> 
> >I've written a Proxy Server with DsSock32.OCX, and it's 
> >now almost perfect. One issue remains though:
> >
> >When downloading .ZIP or .EXE files with SOCKS4 or FTP, all
> >is fine, via my proxy.
> >
> >When downloading these with HTTP, the first 3k or so of the file
> >are missing, yet the rest is perfect. It won't unpack of course.
> >
> >Other stuff via the Proxy's HTTP (HTML, GIF, etc) is fine, and the error
> >only
> >happens with EXEs and ZIPs. I suspect it could be to do with the pause
> >before I click "Save As" in MSIE3. But I'm unsure.
> >
> >I'm a bit stuck now! What do you think it might be?
> >
> >Thanks if you know!
> >
> >Malcolm
> >================================
> >Malcolm Messiter
> >Trans-Send International Ltd
> >malcolm@messiter.demon.co.uk
> >http://www.trans-send.co.uk
> >http://www.demon.co.uk/trans-send/transgate
> >================================
> >
> >
> 
>  Ric.
> -- 
> "Big whorls have little whorls that feed on their velocity, 
> and little whorls have lesser whorls and so on to viscosity."
>                                           -- L.F.Richardson
> PGP id:0766ABE5  http://www.discoveryinternational.com/ric/
> 
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From: "Malcolm Messiter" <malcolm@messiter.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: HTTP Downloading
Date: 1997/06/18
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