downloading problem

[somedaysomewhere]

I use URLdownloadtofile to download a 5MB file, but why does it silently stop at 120KB the downloaded part becomes an invalid win32 application ?
Could someone explain ?
I read MSDN and see that this APi only allows download size less than 4GB, I'd like my application to dowload unlimited file size, and wonder how I can do this too.
In my Console appliation, only that function is used, nothing more.

Thank you.

[hypheni]

some months back I wrote this small code for grabbing a piece of jpg..

	char szName [180];
	char dwnUrl[] = "http://a.imageshack.us/img42/2705/crol.jpg";
	HANDLE hF;

	URLDownloadToCacheFileA (0, dwnUrl, szName, 180, BINDF_GETNEWESTVERSION, 0);
	hF = CreateFileA (szName, GENERIC_READ, 0, 0,OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL ,0);

	if (hF == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
	{
		CloseHandle(hF);
		return false;
	}

	if (GetFileSize (hF, 0) == 26053)
	{
		CloseHandle(hF);
		return true;
	}
	
	else 
	{
		CloseHandle(hF);
		return false;
	}

though this code worked fine with larger files. be sure that you are not closing the file handle before downloading completes.

[Uglybb]

Remember URLDownloadToFile only begins the download you must provide a LPBINDSTATUSCALLBACK function to monitor its progress or simply periodically
or loop check the downloaded file size against the size you started to download.

A return of S_OK from URLDownloadToFile only means The download started successfully it does not mean it completed.

Without seeing your code my guess is you get S_OK back and then drop thru to use the file but a large file will still be downloading.

[somedaysomewhere]

hi, it works finally, thanks for your guides.