Re: lynx-dev any way to download *.asf files by "mms://" protocol? (fwd)

[Matt Ackeret]

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Henry Nelson wrote:

>Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 20:39:46 +0900 (JST)
>From: Henry Nelson <address@hidden>
>Reply-To: address@hidden
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: Re: lynx-dev any way to download *.asf files by "mms://" protocol?
>
>> > It would be nice to download sample audio files for listening at a later
>>
>> Many audio files, and I think .asf are amongst those, are intended only
>> to be streamed in real time.  One reason for that is almost certainly
>
>As Tom mentioned (Thanks, Tom, so I know I'm not the only one.) some .asf
>files are accessible and others are not.  I was hoping someone had figured
>out a way to get them consistently.

Aren't asf files just the URL itself?

I know I've heard of others who can save streamed media to disk (on GUI
browsers for example),  presumably you "just" need a viewer plugin
that saves the data to disk too.

But again, this is possibly violating the law (at least in the US).



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