I'm curious if there is some registry hack that would allow me to download .cab files rather then opening them in PIE. I was out and about trying browsing sites trying to find programs and games to install. I played with it for a while trying to get the cab file to download to my PPC. Each time I try to download it just opens it up in PIE and displays a bunch of text.

Thanks in advanced.

Thats a pretty bizzare problem. When I download files in the .cab format, PIE just saves them, and then I open and install them. No hacks necessary....

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Addition who needs that kind of stuff any way huh?


Who cares if I'm only 16?

 

I've been having some really wierd problems with my PPC after hard resetting. I dunno whats going on. I just hard-reset it again.

[edit] same thing. Keeps just displaying text. [/edit]

You're not alone, all I can manage with my x51v is to view the CAB file not download it

I had a similar problem, but you can try downloading a free piece of software called EzDownload. You just enter the location of the file(s) and it downloads them! You need a pc to install it though...

you will find the cab file in your temp internet folder

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I had found that using Opera works.

It lets me download the cab files without
tring to open the cab files like PIE
does.
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I may be daft dut cant you just copy and past them in explorer or use a card ceader on your comp to cut and paste.

I just started having the same problem. Weird.

Yea, it just downloads it as a text file.

using your file explorer go to:

\Windows\Profiles\guest\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5

You will find the cab file in one of the folders there, yes, the PIE screen will show text; but I assure you the cab file will be in the location above.

Don't know why it does it with some sites and not others. It was explained to me but can not find the forum link, it might have been on another forum.

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Yeah. It only happens with certain sites.

Is it a problem with the site or PIE?

It happens to me. I just copy the location of the cab, and paste it into netfront. Netfront works better for this.

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It is a problem with both, the site is not set up properly to tell PIE that the file is a binary (rather than plain text) and PIE being too stupid to look at the file extension and decide intelligently what it should do.

For those who are interested in why some sites work and others don't:

It's all to do with mimetypes, as a file is downloaded from any site the site will send back a header for the file describing it's size and type i.e. text/html for a webpage and image/jpeg for a jpeg picture, many sites are set up badly and will default to text/plain for undefined filetypes (.cab is very likely to be left off the list of filetypes as it is not very common) and so PIE will moronically trust that what is being sent truly is viewable text and render it as such. The generally used mime type for unknown filetypes intended for download is application/octet-stream, I can only assume that sites intended for storing .cab files have properly set this up and so PIE will know that it is a data file it won't be able to handle and so saves it instead.

I have the same problem with our server, PIE doesnt allows to download the new NOMAD Media Hub software in a cab format.

what would be the correct mime type settings?

http://www.nomadreader.com