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Get URL of file you downloading?

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Montek

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I for long time having this question and cant find answer, theres sometimes sites that have files for download, but they dont give dirrect link, only some script that starts download, and they dont support download managers. So when you click download that file it does show downloading from e.g. www.*****.com but no way to get dirrect URL of file.

Someone know how to do it?
 
They do that to keep you from accessing the file directly and skipping stuff they don't want you to skip (namely, ads on the pages that give you access to the file). If you go hunting around in the page source you may find a direct source address, or you may not. There are various ways of making this hard to do.
 
No i cant find dirrect link its something like http://www.****com&begindownload=1, i know one way to do so is use download manager and then copy link from there, but some pages does not support download managers, how i check dirrect path to file there?

Maybe there is some addon for firefox?
 
I don't know of anything for FF to do what you want, I generally use Galeon and it's download manager shows me the full URL so I've never had to worry about it. But if they're going to that much trouble to stop you from getting the direct link then they probably also have server-side software that makes sure you go through the proper pages (via cookies, referrers, etc) to get to the download.
 
Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
In firefox you can view the source URL once you have started the download. Very handy, I use it a lot.
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Heh, right you can right on download click in FF download window and click properties, there it shows URL, but i am not sure if it works with hidden url's.
 
With certain downloaders, like Download Accelerator Plus it will save the actual download link
you are getting the file from
 
Originally posted by: Montek
Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
In firefox you can view the source URL once you have started the download. Very handy, I use it a lot.
Click to expand...

Heh, right you can right on download click in FF download window and click properties, there it shows URL, but i am not sure if it works with hidden url's.
Click to expand...

it has to, you are not downloading the script anymore.
 
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