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  1. Mar 6th, 2005, 03:56 AM #1
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    Re: Doubt in Download File

    It is not possible to do this with PHP alone, as it would be a major secutiry risk.

    The only way possible would be to have a program on the users computer that downloads the file, then you would be able to select where it would be saved, otherwise the answer is no.
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    Re: Doubt in Download File

    Hi John,
    Do you mean the one in http://www.webshots.com/ ?
    If that is the case, how to make that desktop application communicates with my server. And do I still need PHP?
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    Re: Doubt in Download File

    You don't need PHP, but there is no reason why PHP cannot be used on the server side part of your application. Communicating with a PHP script via a desktop application isn't actually that hard as you can tunnel the communication through HTTP.

    You will require the use of Sockets (WinSock - for Windows) or RPC, such as SOAP of XML-RPC. If you have a look in the Distributed Computing Forum there are many examples and code which describe how to communicate with server side applications via HTTP.
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  4. Mar 7th, 2005, 01:13 AM #4
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    Re: Doubt in Download File

    Hi visualAd,

    Thank you for your advice. I am still new in the socket programming. Haha. In fact, I only tried it in Linux platform. Not yet explore it in Windows platform.

    So, if I wanna use DotNet to develop the desktop application, does Distributed Computing Forum still useful for me?
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