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Stumped...

My flagship software product is a download manager called Download Deputy.
Right now, I think it's a good product, but it has one serious shortcoming:
It takes too much work to instruct Download Deputy to download files. I have
to control-click links to send them to DD, drag the links from my web
browser to Download Deputy, or manually type the URL in. In an ideal world,
I'd like Download Deputy to automatically download any file that Internet
Explorer's download manager would otherwise handle. Unfortunately, IE is
designed such that there's no programmatic method to do that.

So over the past few weeks, I've been investigating different hacks and
kludgy patches for this issue. The most appealing would be for me to design
a local proxy server that just automatically forwards all of the data
properly unless IE requests a file with a certain extension or MIME type. In
the latter case, I'd forward that URL to Download Deputy, and then send IE
some image data that I have preloaded into memory (That image would just say
something like "Download Deputy has grabbed your file!").

I've been struggling because I have a sneaking suspicion that it would be
difficult to write a proxy server that's fast enough, and I'd probably have
to deal with OT/Async. Yuck.

So is an OT AutoPush/STREAMS module the answer? Or a straight proxy server
application? Any other ideas??

Either way, this Deputy problem's been puzzling me for a good long while, so
any help at all would be totally appreciated!!

Thanks!
Mal



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