Download Zip Files

[pkitty]

I upload a zip package and it goes in fine through FTP...I direct link it in my board and when I download it, I get an error telling me it is not a valid archive, but If I do it through ftp I can open it fine....

Can anybody tell me what the problem is?

[pkitty]

Another question I have and days go by without an answer.....I suppose to time to talk to my host about offering this system on their websites.

[fpatton]

I upload a zip package and it goes in fine through FTP...I direct link it in my board and when I download it, I get an error telling me it is not a valid archive, but If I do it through ftp I can open it fine....

Can anybody tell me what the problem is?

Not with that amount of information.  Presumably the file is being corrupted on the http download as you state that  'through FTP I can open it fine...'  Some guesses tho:

Questions:
Does this happen with all files or just this file?  (maybe a strange filename is causing the http protocol to fail, while the ftp protocol succeeds)

Have you tried this with another site?  (you could for example create a geocities.com test site)

my .02

[V@no]

and to all what fpatton said I also would like to test it.

[pkitty]

I upload a zip package and it goes in fine through FTP...I direct link it in my board and when I download it, I get an error telling me it is not a valid archive, but If I do it through ftp I can open it fine....

Can anybody tell me what the problem is?

Not with that amount of information.  Presumably the file is being corrupted on the http download as you state that  'through FTP I can open it fine...'  Some guesses tho:

Questions:
Does this happen with all files or just this file?  (maybe a strange filename is causing the http protocol to fail, while the ftp protocol succeeds)

Have you tried this with another site?  (you could for example create a geocities.com test site)

my .02

Yes, I have my own site and tried them there.  After somebody told me they tried to open them by hitting D/L on the page of my album, I went and downloaded them myself from the album.  When trying to open them, I got the not a valid archive.  I belong to a message board with this person, so I went and pmed the same links....when they got them and downloaded them, they worked fine.

A possibility.....

I do not have these files in my album folder...they are located on another part of my site and I am linking to it.  Do you think because they are not in a numbered folder in the Data section that its the problem?  What I did was uploaded the images, went into edit images, and put the link in for the download. 

I have paint shop pro brushes that I made and there are six packs, none of those work...I also have texture packs with 50 textures in them.  I just tried those, there are four, and they all worked.  *scratches head*

its says the file is 34kb but its downloading in like 1 second.....I would love to give you guys the links, but I have hotlink protection and it wont show up here... I just tried, you get a bandwidth thief error...let me see what I can work up....maybe a page..hold on.

[pkitty]

K,

here is the page I just created....

http://www.greenleafladysworld.com/brushtext.html

the zip file works here...


do you need to see the code on the page that shows the picture?

[V@no]

actualy I dont care about the zip file I wanted to see the page where the problem is

also, phpinfo() would help too

[pkitty]

php version 4.3.11

here is the site, I unlocked the icon brushes so you could look at it, since Im not sure what part of script you need to see...

http://greenleafladysworld.com/MirkwoodManor/index.php

also, when I logged into my CP for my server...I saw the error that it looked like the page was calling it twice


like this

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myhome/home/public_html/www.greenleafladysworld.com/brushzips/Iconpack4.zip//myhome/home/public_html//www.greenleafladysworld.com/brushzips/Iconpack4.zip 

[V@no]

ok, here is what I've discovered:
1) because for some reason your server returns Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT in the header on every page (including when downloading a file), IE automaticaly delete the file from its cache as soon as it was downloaded and therefore you are getting "archive corrupted" (this only affects when u chose to open a file not to save it)

2) some of your files are actualy 404 errors returned by your site:

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:42:37 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) PHP/4.3.11 Resin/2.1.13 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

268

//home/greenl3/public_html/www.greenleafladysworld.com/brushzips/Iconpack3.zip
216.193.252.111
(none)

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The only explanation I have for this is that you put a wrong download url for the files. Path on unix systems can not start with double forward slash, unless its a path to a remote computer (or is it only on windows systems? )

[sargnet]

This is a problem i am having as well is there a way to fix it ???

i get this on all files if you choose to open the file only choose save and it seems to be fine any help would be great as the files i have on site are auto install