Metaproducts Download Express

[Tattala]

Anyone tried and liked ?

Frank

 

[Phoenix]

Anyone tried and liked ?

Frank.

Is it freeware? I use Net Transport - and that IS.

 

[George]

Is it freeware? I use Net Transport - and that IS.

Does it support resume? I can't find any mention of it on the site.

 

[Tattala]

.... 'course. ....this IS a.c.f !
But there IS a commercial version also.

Frank

"Phoenix" wrote ...

 

[Tattala]

.... 'course. ....this IS a.c.f !
But there IS a commercial version also.

Site: http://www.metaware.com/

STANDARD FEATURES

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a.. HTTP, FTP, HTTPS protocol support
b.. Cookies support
c.. Very fast and reliable file retrieval from the Web and FTP
sites
d.. Maximum Internet connection bandwidth usage when loading
several files parts simultaneously
e.. HTTP and SOCKS Proxy support
f.. Internet Explorer clicks interception
g.. Check downloaded files for viruses
h.. Very easy to use
i.. Can operate in the background
j.. The ability to resume broken downloads



From here: http://www.metaproducts.com/mp/mpProducts_Features.asp?id=18


Frank

"Phoenix" wrote ...

 

[Debbie Bullock]

It's built in on a website I was on just a few minutes ago. It took me 23
seconds to download a 79.3 kb pdf file. 'Course, that's with dialup.

Debbie

 

[Mike McCoy]

Anyone tried and liked ?

Yes, I use it often, and find it good -- though I use an early version of
Flashget more often, because it saves a *.log file for each download,
recording the source and other notes I make.

 

[Roger Johansson]

Yes, I use it often, and find it good -- though I use an early version of
Flashget more often, because it saves a *.log file for each download,
recording the source and other notes I make.

Download Express also saves a kind of log, but not in the form of a
text file. I have used its projects list to copy and paste download
urls and to see what I have downloaded.

I wrote a list of features for downloader programs once, as a reply
message I never posted. Here is the list:

1: Can it use more than one thread? For maximum speed.

2: Can it handle cookies, for yahoogroups files, for example?

3: [1] Does it have you end with broken/incomplete downloads?

(most browsers have Resume built-in already, but of course important
in a downloader too.)

4: Does it allow you to set up a default download dir? So you don't
have to tell it every time where to put the file.

5: Does it have a drop zone, or drop link, so you can just drop a link
on it?

6: Does it warn you when the downloaded file is just another html
file, falsely named xxx.zip, you would have to click through?

7: Does it save a download log file?

Less important features below:

[2] Is its Save In dialog dynamic?

[2] Where does it store the history of downloaded files?

[4] Any redirect intelligence whatsoever?

[5] Resources friendly or a hog?

Download Express has the most important features here, that is why it
is my choice. (Its projects list can be used as a drop zone.)
But no downloader I know has all the features one could wish for.

If I had more energy I would set up a table over downloaders and what
features they have.

 

[Mike]

I wrote a list of features for downloader programs once, as a reply
message I never posted. Here is the list:

Thanks, Roger -- a useful checklist.

Mike

 

[garrapat]

Is it freeware? I use Net Transport - and that IS.

Free for non-commercial use