[2005] Web Downloading, confused

[tylerm]

I'm completely lost with this one.

I'm probably in the wrong forum, but here it goes...

I want to create a program or some kind of library that allows my web page (ASP.NET or PHP) to communicate with the visitor.

Basically I want to create a content downloader that doesn't require the user to save the files to the directory it will install and download the file my from my ASP.NET page to a specific location on the visitor computer

(This is for video game content downloading)

I know it sounds confusing.

[Cristian]

The first thing that you must to decide is what type of file do you want to download. Or do you want the web page automatically download files when the user enter to your web Page ?
Are you creating a video game or only you want the users download or play the video games ?

[tylerm]

Normally it will download compressed zip files. It's content for a specific video game.

[Cristian]

What do you mean with "that doesn't require the user to save the files to the directory". The only archives that automatically download are the activex controls ( win ) and the applets ( Mac ). That is because they are showed in the web page, but always is needed the user interaction for files download.
The only option that i see is that you to create a installer file like installshield or windows installer. Then, in your page you put a link to that file, but like i told you always is needed that the user click in your link.

[tylerm]

No no no, I mean I want to create a program/plugin that works with "X" webpage, where it can tell locate the path of the installed game (Since it wont be the same for each machine) and download/extract the ZIP to the game's content folder without the user saving each of the zip files to different places.

My only good example of this is EA's SimCity Exchange, which installs some kind of plugin and locates the my documents folder on the vistors machine

[RobDog888]

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