Downloading CAB files using Internet Explorer

vinnielo · 07-25-05, 03:35 PM

Has anyone experienced the problem of trying to download CAB files, but Internet Explorer just tries to display the files as text?
I'm wondering if it's because of some dodgy software I may have installed.

joedoe101 · 07-25-05, 03:47 PM

I have this same problem too...Usually the cabs are in zips which is nice

Ecks · 07-26-05, 04:16 PM

I only had this problem when i was trying to dl the agile messenger cab file. Strange....
Ecks

vinnielo · 07-26-05, 06:48 PM

Yes, that was one of the items I was trying to download.
Perhaps it's a server problem.

JonMisurda · 07-26-05, 07:40 PM

It's a combination of server misconfiguration and Pocket Internet Explorer. By default most webservers broadcast the MIME type associated with the .cab extension to be plain text. IE on the desktop ignores that and downloads it as a program/binary. PIE actually listens and tries to download it as text.

I personally click the cab link in PIE, stop the dl immediately and then launch a program called EZDownload that automatically pastes the url and lets you download the cab.

I have a program that i'm writing that will take a webpage and let you download all sorts of things associated with it (other pages, links, images) that I hope to someday release.

Jon

transcout · 07-26-05, 07:42 PM

If you just let it load, you can find the .cab file in temporary internet files folder.

silentknight · 07-26-05, 07:45 PM

You can also let the cab load completely in PIE then browse to your temp files and wala there is the CAB file... sometimes easier to search for cab files..

but actually now adays I use FTXP browser (Freeware) which has a 'save as' feature.

Edit: oops too late..