Using BITS - making bill gates proud

[Saurabh Kumar]

Hi,
Get a lead from Ken Tucker, I was thinking if I can make a download manager
completely based on BITS. Though unfortunately it will need to be based for
Win XP onwards, I presume more and more ppl with win98 are anyway switching
to XP. But, I seem to be stumbling upon some hurdles, even after using the
latest BITS 2.0. Can anybody provide some pointers?

1) It seems that BITS cannot download files off FTP! A download manager
which cant get files off ftp will be severely limited
2) A more serious issue, can BITS download files only hosted on servers
running IIS?? What about the files coming ff Apache and the like? If this is
a requirement, this project plan goes down the drain rightaway

I would love to use BITS, because it seems very promising, and cuddles up
cozily with WIN XP onwards.

Thanks in anticipation.

 

[Tom Shelton]

Hi,
Get a lead from Ken Tucker, I was thinking if I can make a download manager
completely based on BITS. Though unfortunately it will need to be based for
Win XP onwards, I presume more and more ppl with win98 are anyway switching
to XP. But, I seem to be stumbling upon some hurdles, even after using the
latest BITS 2.0. Can anybody provide some pointers?

1) It seems that BITS cannot download files off FTP! A download manager
which cant get files off ftp will be severely limited

In some ways. BITS uses HTTP.

2) A more serious issue, can BITS download files only hosted on servers
running IIS?? What about the files coming ff Apache and the like? If this is
a requirement, this project plan goes down the drain rightaway

No it doesn't have to be on IIS. I've used bits to download from our
FreeBSD servers running Apache without any problems.