:)

"Katie" <DnkyCart***@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am downloading files using ASP using the the binarywrite as below.
>
>  objStream.LoadFromFile(strAbsFile)
>        '-- send the stream in the response
>         Response.BinaryWrite(objStream.Read)
>
>  I was wondering is there any way I can control or throttle the
> download?. I want to make sure that the users are not taking up too
> much bandwidth while downloading the file.
>
> Thanks for your help and time
>
> :)
>

> "Katie" <DnkyCart***@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1156798438.185741.36420@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am downloading files using ASP using the the binarywrite as below.
> >
> >  objStream.LoadFromFile(strAbsFile)
> >        '-- send the stream in the response
> >         Response.BinaryWrite(objStream.Read)
> >
> >  I was wondering is there any way I can control or throttle the
> > download?. I want to make sure that the users are not taking up too
> > much bandwidth while downloading the file.
> >
> > Thanks for your help and time
> >
> > :)
> >
>
> The only way to do this without using an additional component is to put this
> file in it's own application and enable I/O throttling (although that will
> apply to all downloads currently in progress).
>
> What version of IIS are you using?
>
> I assume you have Response.Buffer = false in the code?
>
> You should note that even with buffer = false the buffer limit is still in
> effect for any single call to BinaryWrite.  On IIS6 the default limit is 4MB
> hence a file larger than this will break the limit.  I would recommend that
> you use a for loop to chunk the contents to BinaryWrite. This does have the
> effect of slowing the download (with no buffer, binarywrite will become
> dependant of client acknowledgments) so use a chunk size of say 2Mb to
> minimize this impact.
>
> If you can build and use additional components you can use a chunking loop
> to control bandwidth usage by using the sleep API to pause the loop a
> little.
>
> Anthony.

"Katie" <DnkyCart***@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Below is a sub I wrote to download files by using response.binarywrite.
> The code works fine, but is there any way to throttle it so that if the
> clients are downloading large files (several hundred megs) they dont
> take up all the bandwidth. I think the IIS version is 5, but ill
> confirm that with the sys admin
>
> thanks for ure help
> :)
>
> Private Sub streamDocs(path, filename, originalFileName, contentType)
>
> Response.AddHeader
> "content-disposition","attachment;filename="&originalFileName
> Response.ContentType = contentType
> Dim BinaryStream, Fil, fs
> Set BinaryStream = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")
>
> set fs = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
>
> Set Fil = fs.GetFile(path & "\" &filename) 'Open file
>
> BinaryStream.Type = 1
>   BinaryStream.Open
>        BinaryStream.LoadFromFile Fil.path
> Response.BinaryWrite BinaryStream.Read
> BinaryStream.Cancel
> BinaryStream.Close
> set BinaryStream = nothing
>
> End sub

> Anthony Jones wrote:
> > "Katie" <DnkyCart***@gmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:1156798438.185741.36420@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am downloading files using ASP using the the binarywrite as below.
> > >
> > >  objStream.LoadFromFile(strAbsFile)
> > >        '-- send the stream in the response
> > >         Response.BinaryWrite(objStream.Read)
> > >
> > >  I was wondering is there any way I can control or throttle the
> > > download?. I want to make sure that the users are not taking up too
> > > much bandwidth while downloading the file.
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help and time
> > >
> > > :)
> > >
> >
> > The only way to do this without using an additional component is to put
this
> > file in it's own application and enable I/O throttling (although that
will
> > apply to all downloads currently in progress).
> >
> > What version of IIS are you using?
> >
> > I assume you have Response.Buffer = false in the code?
> >
> > You should note that even with buffer = false the buffer limit is still
in
> > effect for any single call to BinaryWrite.  On IIS6 the default limit is
4MB
> > hence a file larger than this will break the limit.  I would recommend
that
> > you use a for loop to chunk the contents to BinaryWrite. This does have
the
> > effect of slowing the download (with no buffer, binarywrite will become
> > dependant of client acknowledgments) so use a chunk size of say 2Mb to
> > minimize this impact.
> >
> > If you can build and use additional components you can use a chunking
loop
> > to control bandwidth usage by using the sleep API to pause the loop a
> > little.
> >
> > Anthony.
>

> "Katie" <DnkyCart***@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1156798438.185741.36420@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am downloading files using ASP using the the binarywrite as below.
> >
> >  objStream.LoadFromFile(strAbsFile)
> >        '-- send the stream in the response
> >         Response.BinaryWrite(objStream.Read)
> >
> >  I was wondering is there any way I can control or throttle the
> > download?. I want to make sure that the users are not taking up too
> > much bandwidth while downloading the file.
> >
> > Thanks for your help and time
> >
> > :)
> >
>
> The only way to do this without using an additional component is to put this
> file in it's own application and enable I/O throttling (although that will
> apply to all downloads currently in progress).
>
> What version of IIS are you using?
>
> I assume you have Response.Buffer = false in the code?
>
> You should note that even with buffer = false the buffer limit is still in
> effect for any single call to BinaryWrite.  On IIS6 the default limit is 4MB
> hence a file larger than this will break the limit.  I would recommend that
> you use a for loop to chunk the contents to BinaryWrite. This does have the
> effect of slowing the download (with no buffer, binarywrite will become
> dependant of client acknowledgments) so use a chunk size of say 2Mb to
> minimize this impact.
>
> If you can build and use additional components you can use a chunking loop
> to control bandwidth usage by using the sleep API to pause the loop a
> little.
>
> Anthony.