From: C. Kevin Provance on

"Tony Toews [MVP]" <ttoews(a)telusplanet.net> wrote in message
news:mhvgf59p0sh1n23o8plob0vo6csv9ja6a3(a)4ax.com...
| "Karl E. Peterson" <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote:
|
| >> Rather than downloading the entire file just to see if it's changed
| >> I'd just like to get the date/time and/or size of a file on an HTTP
| >> site.
| >
| >After reading this entire thread, I feel compelled to ask "for what
purpose?" I'm
| >thinking there are almost certainly easier ways to accomplish your goal,
which I
| >suspect is to decide whether or not to download an update. For example,
you could
| >have a tiny "flag" file that contains the date/time/version of whatever
the latest
| >is. This could be snatched, inspected, and acted upon with no changes at
all in
| >your existing code.
|
| I'm already doing that for updates to my software. See
| http://autofeupdater.com/_download/currentversion.txt for what I've
| done there.
|
| This chunk of logic is for license key files which would be specific
| by client but might be 200 or 500 encrypted bytes long but there might
| be dozens or, if I'm fortunate, hundreds. So if the license key file
| changes for the particular user then I want to download it.
|
| Now granted 200 clients downloading a 500 byte file each day is only
| going to be a 100 Kb load on my server so maybe I shouldn't even be
| worrying myself about this. It's just that I like being efficient and
| economical with bytes.

In the 90s, that might have been a cause for concern. These days most
providers give unlimited bandwitdh, which makes the worry moot.

In my own case, I use Inno as a stub to check for file versions from one
master version.txt file and download the updated file on demand, if
required.


From: Tony Toews [MVP] on
"C. Kevin Provance" <*@*.*> wrote:

>In the 90s, that might have been a cause for concern. These days most
>providers give unlimited bandwitdh, which makes the worry moot.

Not in Canada and my utility is for businesses so not that big of a
deal.

>In my own case, I use Inno as a stub to check for file versions from one
>master version.txt file and download the updated file on demand, if
>required.

Whereas my utility is a drag and drop onto the server deployment.
It's distributed as a zip file so I'm not using Inno at all.

Tony

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From: mayayana on


> Newsgroup Answers MDB - I designed the MDB to assist frequent
> newsgroup answerers, such as MVPs, in quickly locating and pasting in
> their favourite snippets of answers.
> http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/newsgroupanswersmdb.htm
>

Thanks. MDB? Is that an access database?
Is there a way to convert it to csv or text without
having Office, so that I could store it in a different
format?




From: mayayana on

> > Would that be a case
> > like accessing one's company network from outside
> > to reach an intranet webpage?
>
> No it's the other way around. The employee is asked for a password to
access
> the Internet

I see. A related issue:

I actually built in a proxy check to the
UC, so that it would raise an error if someone
is connecting via proxy. Strangely, though, it
tells me that I'm connected via proxy! I'm using
cable with a router. Maybe the router is seen
as a proxy. I don't know. But I have to comment
out the proxy check to use the UC myself.


From: mayayana on
> In the 90s, that might have been a cause for concern. These days most
> providers give unlimited bandwitdh, which makes the worry moot.
>

I'd agree that such a small amount is not
likely to matter...unless of course Tony ends
up selling a million copies. :)

But I don't think anyone *really* offers unlimited
traffic. The ones that do usually have lots of
restrictions. Apropos of that I saw a good definition
of unlimited on Slasdhdot today: With Verizon's
new Android phone one is forced to buy an "unlimited"
data plan for $30, which provides for 5 GB traffic.
Every GB used above that costs $50 additional! :)

(Considering that something like 85% of Americans
now have cellphones, the sheer hucksterism the
phone companies get away with is remarkable.)


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