Tag: Download
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Downloading UTF-8 filenames from an FTP-server that does not support them, with System.Net.FtpWebRequest
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I have written a windows service in .Net that monitors an FTP location for new files, which it then downloads to a local folder for processing. To be precise, the tool first renames the file before downloading it. It uses the .Net standard FtpWebRequest class from System.Net. Every once in a while, a file could…
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Downloading a video from any website
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in GeneralAs an aside, completely unrelated to software development, last night I browsed the web and found a video on a blog that I really wanted to save to my harddrive (because you never know if the blogger might take it down later). I tried really hard (yet unsuccesful) to remember what tool I used last…