recently discovered the My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile method and would love to use it to download files from a website (https://www...). I can include a username and password in the DownloadFile parameter list,but will it send the password in plain text? If so, is there a way to send an encrypted password?
There seem to be many ways to download files. What are the advantages or typical uses of each?
I am consuming a webservice and need to pass username and password using WS-Security. I need to pass the Username/password in the SOAP Header. However, I need to encrypt it using 3DES encryption using the key provided by a vendor. The language I am using is .Net (1.1) (vb.net).
View 1 RepliesI have made a program that uploads pictures to my website. But I have seen that there are loads of decriptors that can check my password. I have heard some people talking about encrepting and decripting but I have NO idea how I have to do that. I am working with a webclient as upload and I am using My.Computer.Network.UploadFile I need to make my password secure, so there is no way to get my password over that program.
View 10 RepliesI'm writing a backup program for personal (for the moment at least) use.
For some directories (network directories / protected directories) credentials are needed to access them.
I can setup different jobs in the program to run at specific times.
These jobs are stored in an XML file.
I want to also store the usernames and passwords which the jobs will need.
What and where would be the best way to store these?
Changing permissions on the directories is not an option.
I made a password protected program, but I wanted to make a reset password via security code. I made this, but it will not work for some reason. It seems like it'll work for the first time, but then when you try to set the password, it stills shows that the password is there and when I go into the reset password form and do it again, but then it say its incorrect.
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i am having a mysql database that is having a password. so i am using it to login to the program. Is there a way to save the password (md5 encrypted i can do this) on a flash drive so i can access it from the program but the user can't access it.
View 17 RepliesI am getting the following error message when I try to call this program from a shared drive on our network;
System.Security.SecurityException: System.Security.Permissions.SecurityPermission
at EMAILVB.EmialVB.EmailVB_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e)
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I am using Visual Basic 2010. I use successfully webclient downloadfile to download a file from a remote website. Now I want "protect" downloading so one have to "login" before to download the file. (i.e. I should like it is not possibile to simply type [URL] to download the file and so the downloading is possible only by my VB app.) I "protect" the website by a login page. I try to use webclient.credential(username,password) but the system message is error HTTP 404 (page not found).
View 4 RepliesI have tried using the My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile method but unfortunately it is slow.
Executing the simple command below takes ~5-10 secs, which I would say is a lot longer than expected for downloading a 9 kb file.`My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile("http://www.google.dk", "j: emp est.html")
I have one problem with WebClient.DownloadFile
On asp.net server I have page with this code:
Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
If Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(Me.Request.QueryString("Tool")) Then
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I'm a beginner to Visual Basic, and I made a simple program, however I want to put a 'check update' button in it... It consists of downloading a txt file that contains three numbers, if it match with the version of the program it says 'you already have the most up-to-date version' or else it asks you to download the update and then bring you to the dev blog of the program I made, however, when I download that file, it brings me a blank txt file instead of the one I uploaded into the site. By the way, I'm downloading it through HTTP.
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I have a small dilemma... how can I see the download progress when using My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile
My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile("http://some_url.com/a_file.txt", "the_file.txt")
I'm trying to download a file from the internet by clicking a button in MS Access.
I'm trying to use My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile as described here: [URL]
Private Sub Command2_Click()
My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile("http://www.example.com/temp/xml_test.xml", "C:xml_test.xml")
End Sub
but the 'Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications' IDE that I'm typing this into seems to have no idea what I'm talking about (text just turns red).
Can I just not do this through the built in VB editor or can I simply load a library or something to make it work?
Sorry but I'm very new to VB and to Access so search results are not specific enough for me to understand - lord knows I've tried.
I'm using Access 2010 but the DB was created in an previous version - not sure if that matters.
My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile("http://MyDomain.info/MyFile.zip", SaveFileDialog)Hi, the above don't work, what i need is for it to popup a savedialog for the user to browser for a location to download the file
View 4 RepliesI am trying to write a program to download an image at certain time intervals from a website based on a start time, end time and the time interval. I am trying to use 3 timers to accomplish this. I want to be able to kick the program off and leave it running until I stop it. My code seems to work fine if I set the time interval for something like 2 minutes, etc. and sit and watch it, but if I set it for an hour and leave it alone, it gives me almost sporadic results.
I set it to start at 10 pm last night and end at 5 am this morning with an interval of 1 hour. It downloaded an image at 10 pm, 11 pm, 12 am, 1 am, 2 am, and 3 am and then there were no images for 4 and 5 am. I have tried this multiple times with different time spans, and seem to get sporadic results. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Here is my current code:
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
If TextBox1.Text.Length = 0 Or cmbStartTime.Text.Length = 0 Or cmbEndTime.Text.Length = 0 Or TextBox2.Text.Length = 0 Then
MsgBox("You must select an image destination, start time and time increment.")
Else
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Well my Application should download a File from my FTP when i Click Donwload but i am having Problems it doesn't really Download it good:
Dim clsRequest As FtpWebRequest = System.Net.WebRequest.Create("ftp://------/public_html/----/" & lb_1.SelectedItem & "/" & "Firmware" & "/" & lb_3.SelectedItem)
clsRequest.Credentials = New System.Net.NetworkCredential("------", "-------")
clsRequest.Method = System.Net.WebRequestMethods.Ftp.DownloadFile
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I'm automating downloads. I was getting this error quite a bit using Webbrowser to navigate to a PDF (various PDFs at various websites). In other words the PDF was already on display in the browser when I called WebClient.DownloadToFile. I got a LOT better results when I desisted from WebClient and switched to this API (just pass in the two strings along with zeroes for the other parameters).
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And yet Webclient seems oriented for only two entries (username and password). How do you set up the credentials for three entries? I hate to abandon WebClient, but at this point I just don't know how to make it work.
The below code for some reason isn't working with filefront. I'm grabbing the URL that returns the file to download but the wc.downloadfile() code doesn't download the file. It creates an empty file called 100.rar in my temp directory on C: but doesn't have any data. Is there something I'm doing wrong or is filefronts redirect messing something up? If I put the URL I get with the fixUrl variable, it pops up the file to download in my internet browser fine.
Imports System.Net
Imports System.Windows.Forms
Imports System.Security.Permissions
Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions
Imports System.IO
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I try to download a file by using the My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile 'command'. The path i use is this: [URL]. Everytime i want to download it, it downloads the HTML file of this zippyshare page! I want just the .mp3. How can i do that?
View 4 RepliesI have a problem when i use My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile from a iseries share path
View 2 RepliesHow do I have it overwrite the file if it already exists with My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile?
Here's the code for where its needed but, this is not all of the code
My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile _
("http:mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/mozillaseamonkey/releases/1.1.14/seamonkey-1.1.14.en-US.win32.installer.exe", _
"C:\Program Files\Warez-One Package Manager\Downloaded Packages\seamonkey-1.114.en-US.win32.installer.exe")
Any way to set (force) using binary or text for ftp in My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile?
View 4 RepliesI'm downloading a file from my website using WebClient.DownloadFile(),I'm wanting to do it asynchronously, so my UI stays responsive, that would require me creating an array of web clients, is that bad practice? Or is it acceptable?I have looked into FileWebRequest, but thought WebClient looked easier to implement.
View 10 RepliesHow to download multiple files with a wildcard pattern using webclient DownloadFile? Like project* from [URL]..
View 1 RepliesI use this line to download files: My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile(VideoFilename, SaveLocation, "", "", True, 8000, True But if a users cancel the download my application crashes. I searched Google but there's very little info about this problem. I tried with: My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile(FilenameMP3, SaveLocation, "", "", True, 8000, True, FileIO.UICancelOption.ThrowException, FileIO.RecycleOption.SendToRecycleBin()) But that line of code doesn't work. I need to get rid of the file when a users cancel
View 1 RepliesIm using My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile(OnlineLocation, FullLocal) to download a file, how can i check when its done and also i want to track the progess with a progressbar. How do i do this?
View 25 RepliesI'm trying to access a web server to download a file, but when I run the statement gives me the following WebException:
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I'm trying to create a password change form for my company's vendors. There are a couple of scenarios I could encounter doing this:
1 - User enters invalid current password
2 - New passwords do not match
3 - User's account is locked
4 - User cannot authenticate because password is expired
It's case 4 that I'm struggling with, because their is no way for me to take the password the user entered and verify it against active directory without getting an error.
I am implementing a system where the user can Reset their password if they have forgotten it.Once it is reset I want to give them the option of changing the password so that it will be something more memorable to them.The password is hashed and if i enter in the correct old password and new password the password does change.If I enter in the wrong old password and new password the password doesnt change.Is there a way to match the old password with the old password field in code behind so I can throw up an error to the user to tell them what is wrong? [code]
View 1 RepliesHow do you get a textbox being using for password entry to display the black circle that you often see in web forms, on the iphone etc etc?
I can change the PasswordChar property to an asterisk no problem and even copying and pasting symbols inserted into Word seemed to work - just couldn't find a symbol that looked like a bullet point!
Can this actually be achieved for a standalone exe, or is it something unique to web forms? Surely copying and pasting symbols from Word isn't actually the answer?
