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hi everyone. i use asp to send files to users to prevent hotlinking and i
always used following code
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Response.ContentType="video/3gpp"
response.addheader "Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename="&
file
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Set objStream = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")
objStream.Open
objStream.Type = 1
objStream.LoadFromFile "c:\my.file"
Response.BinaryWrite objStream.Read
objStream.Close
Set objStream = Nothing
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none of the files bigger than 4 mb. but today i have read read following
(couple posts below)
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Sub SendFileToResponse(FilePath, FileName)
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Const clChunkSize = 1048576 ' 1MB
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Dim oStream, i
Response.Buffer = False
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Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream"
Response.AddHeader "Content-Disposition", _
"attachment; Filename=" & FileName
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Set oStream = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")
oStream.Type = 1 ' Binary
oStream.Open
oStream.LoadFromFile FilePath
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For i = 1 To oStream.Size \ clChunkSize
Response.BinaryWrite oStream.Read(clChunkSize)
Next
If (oStream.Size Mod clChunkSize) <0 Then
Response.BinaryWrite oStream.Read(oStream.Size Mod
clChunkSize)
End If
oStream.Close
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End Sub
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so my question is which one is better and more efficient? in my case only
mobile phones used to download and i am not sure if copping files could
couse problem.
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The stick with your simpler solution. It's likely to be faster and is less
likely to go wrong. That is unless you do hit the buffer limit.
