Downloadable Product File Sizes

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   The maximum 4MB "hidden url" option is much too small for us. 

We fortunately have Persit's ASPUpload component onboard that securely downloads large files as a binary stream.  Touching up the "downloadFile(strFile)" function in /pc/downloadnow.asp as follows did the trick:

Dim objUpload
Set objUpload = Server.CreateObject("Persits.Upload")
 objUpload.SendBinary strFilename, True, "application/octet-binary", True
 Set objUpload = Nothing

If you had a component check for downloadable products, it would be nice not to be hampered by the 4MB maximum file size limitation without code changes.

Just a thought.

Cheers

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Benissimo Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 28-September-2009 Location: Cali Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote Benissimo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Downloadable Product File Sizes Posted: 28-September-2009 at 2:08pm
	The maximum 4MB "hidden url" option is much too small for us. We fortunately have Persit's ASPUpload component onboard that securely downloads large files as a binary stream. Touching up the "downloadFile(strFile)" function in /pc/downloadnow.asp as follows did the trick: Dim objUpload Set objUpload = Server.CreateObject("Persits.Upload") objUpload.SendBinary strFilename, True, "application/octet-binary", True Set objUpload = Nothing If you had a component check for downloadable products, it would be nice not to be hampered by the 4MB maximum file size limitation without code changes. Just a thought. Cheers

Greg Dinger Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Certified ProductCart Developers Joined: 23-September-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 238	Post Options Post Reply Quote Greg Dinger Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 28-September-2009 at 2:35pm
	Nice to hear. Thanks for posting this. I've bumped up against this issue and appreciate your input. Edited by Greg Dinger - 28-September-2009 at 2:36pm

Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Guest	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 28-September-2009 at 3:50pm
	Nice tip, Benisimo. The technical issue is that without the use of a 3rd party component, IIS can only push 4 MB of data in a single response by default (the IIS metabase can be edited to change that, but that might not be the best idea depending, and is very unlikely to be an option on shared hosting servers). Most folks running PC should probably be on servers running Persist's ASPUpload, so they should be able to make use of this.

kcramer Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 08-November-2009 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote kcramer Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 08-November-2009 at 9:50am
	We have the same problem with the 4MB limitation. 4MB is much too small for the downloadable product we're planning to release later this month. I have one question: Where in the downloadnow.asp file should we add the code mentioned at the beginning of this thread? Our server is running Persit's ASPUpload, so hopefully this solution will solve the problem of the 4MB limitation. I'm not a programmer, but if it's a matter of copying and pasting this code to add it into the file, or using this code to replace some of the code that's already in the file, I can manage that if someone would be kind enough to let me know exactly where to put it. Thanks in advance for any help! ~ Kristen

BrianRoden Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 07-September-2007 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote BrianRoden Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12-November-2009 at 11:23am
	As Kristen requested above, please post more detail on the modifications to the downloadFile() function. Which lines of downloadnow.asp are you replacing with this code?

Benissimo Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 28-September-2009 Location: Cali Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote Benissimo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 27-August-2010 at 4:23pm
	Sorry about the late reply, here's how I plugged the code into the script /pc/downloadnow.asp: On Line 119, there is this five lines of code: ' send the headers to the users browser Response.AddHeader "Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" & FileName1 Response.AddHeader "Content-Length", intFilelength Response.Charset = "UTF-8" Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream" Comment this out and enter this code instead: Dim objUpload Set objUpload = Server.CreateObject("Persits.Upload") objUpload.SendBinary strFilename, True, "application/octet-binary", True Set objUpload = Nothing That's it and of course, you'll need the ASPUpload component installed on the web server. The component should theoretically cater to any file size you want, in our case the files were around 2GB's and it worked fine. To find out more about this component and how much it costs, go here: http://www.aspupload.com/ Cheers