Downloading feeds problem ?

**madeinbritain** · 01-04-05

Having a problem downloading big csv feeds in zipped form from awin. Can download the small ones but not the bigger files. I know this is a problem with my pc. Cant understand why though. My pc is a new dell pc and has plenty of free space on it. I just get empty files for big downloads.

Any ideas ?

**Rich** · 01-04-05

Its a problem at Awin - or at least I have the same problem, empty zip files, and I'm quite confident it isn't an issue with my pc.

At a guess their script is forking of a separate process and isn't taking into account the time it takes to generate the larger csv files.

**madeinbritain** · 01-04-05

it works perfectly on someone elses pc when ive tried. Not sure if ive got an old version of something running.

**madeinbritain** · 01-04-05

noticed the same problem with aff fut, so sure it's to so with my setup. I never used to get this problem.

**Brett** · 02-04-05

Are you by chance trying to download the feeds using Firefox rather than IE?

My work machine has both and sometimes will only get the AWIN feeds using IE.

Might be it?

**madeinbritain** · 05-04-05

no ie6, maybe it needs updating. Will try firefox though to see what happens.

**linktastic** · 05-04-05

I have noticed I was unable to download any of the feeds with Firefox, had to swap back to IE every time

**madeinbritain** · 06-04-05

firefox def doesnt work, do you all run the latest version of IE ?. I've got 6 but probably not the latest version

**JohnC** · 08-04-05

how can a browser affect the way you dl?

sounds stupid to me.

Have you tryed making the url your self as it shows you at the bottom of the aw feeds page?

**Brett** · 08-04-05

Thanks John for being so positive.

Browsers do things differently believe it or not and 3 people here have all said that they have had problems using firefox so I would suggest the idea is not a stupid one.

You might of course be right and it could be something completley different and unrelated to the the browser ;-)