Making a safe link for others to download from TIA

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I would like to make it possible for someone to download files etc
which are too large to be acceptable to some servers. Any help
gratefully received.
 
sandy58 said:
I would like to make it possible for someone to download files etc
which are too large to be acceptable to some servers. Any help
gratefully received.
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I assume that you mean files that are too large to be emailed.

If AOL gives you space for a personal web page, you can upload them and
have people download them from there. If you'd rather not give out the
password to your personal AOL site, try
http://www.bridgeport.edu/sed/projects/cs597/Spring_2003/abakshi/main.htm

[caveat: I don't use this service myself and make no representations as
to its reliability, security, privacy, etc.]
 
sandy58 said:
I would like to make it possible for someone to download files etc
which are too large to be acceptable to some servers. Any help
gratefully received.
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That must be some monster-sized file that won't be accepted by any file
server or online storage service. So why not rent a U-haul van, pack it
up with those hundreds of CDs or DVDs, and drive over to your friend's
house with them all since you'll probably get faster bandwidth that way
(never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck carrying storage media).

Your post is way too vague to know WHAT you are trying to do. Are you
trying to send someone a file via e-mail? Do you want someplace online
from where they can click a link to get it? What are "some servers"?

Any DETAILS gratefully received.

If you meant how to send large e-mails (i.e., they have large files
attached), some services that you could try are:

http://www.dropload.com/ (up to 100MB)
http://www.sendover.com/ (up to 2GB)
http://www.yousendit.com/ (up to 1GB)

Remember that files do not magically float along with your e-mail. They
are INSERTED into the body of your e-mail and encoded into plain text
(all e-mail goes as plain text even if it be RTF or HTML). Encoding a
binary file into a text section enlarges the size of the e-mail by as
much as up to 50% (i.e., expect a file to enlarge by 150% when you
attach it to an e-mail). So if you want to send a 10MB file in a very
short e-mail message, it could bloat up to 15MB (which puts you above,
say, the 10MB per-message size limit for your e-mail account).

Also remember that your friend may prefer you to mail them your file
using a CD-R or DVD-R if they are still stuck using dial-up for Internet
access. They probably don't need it as immediately as you want to give
it to them.
 
Sorry for being so vague, Vanguard, and thanks for the fast response. I
was thinking along the lines of some downloads I have had from sites.
IE when given a site address with the software added on. a URL? I'm not
too clever with the technical terminology (as you have probably
gathered by now) But I have downloaded stuff from http:// ******* etc
to get the software, files whatever, ending with .rar This is not much
better than my previous posting but.............?
 
Thank you very much, Vanguard. I have found what I need although I had
never heard of this software before. WWW File Share Pro. I have "saved"
the links you provided me with to use at a later date.
Sandy in Scotland
 
sandy58 said:
Thank you very much, Vanguard. I have found what I need although I had
never heard of this software before. WWW File Share Pro. I have
"saved"
the links you provided me with to use at a later date.
Sandy in Scotland
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If all you wanted to do is give the URL for the download link to other
users, just right-click on the link and Copy Shortcut and paste into
your e-mail. That will copy and paste the URL for the link. However,
some sites don't provide direct links to their download files. They use
a server-side script to pick the file so a shortcut URL won't work.
Instead you give the recipient the URL for the page where the download
link is located. However (yep, another one), some sites don't let you
directly navigate to a page somewhere inside their web site but require
that you navigate to it from one of their other pages (they might use
Referrer to determine from where you came when you visit a page to make
sure you get to the page from one of their other pages), so you give the
URL for their home page and tell the recipient how to navigate through
the pages.

If the FileShare Pro that you are talking about is at
http://www.wfshome.com/index.html, that installs a server on your
computer. Remember that means you are running their software on your
host, you are trusting them with the contents of your drives, and
running a server reduces security if you don't know how to secure your
network. Windows XP already comes with a web server that you could use
to distribute files via HTTP using links. It also comes with an FTP
server that you could use to share files. You really didn't need the
extra software installed on your host if what you wanted was for YOU to
be the file server. It really doesn't sound like you have the expertise
to run a server or to secure it, plus it may violate the Terms of
Service with your ISP (read it since many say you are not allowed to run
servers under a "personal" account and will have to upgrade to a
business account).
 
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