I have GoZilla installed to download big .exe and .zip files from the internet. This is especially important when you only have dial-up access, because if you lose your connection or accidentally cancel the download, GoZilla can resume the download without losing everything. But various sites (such as IBM, where I'm trying to download Homepage Builder trial software - 162MB) prevent this because instead of giving you a link to the file that GoZilla can intercept, they use a complicated Form method (where sometimes you've had to "register", even though the trial download is free). When you click on the Form button to download, you get the popup window to open or save the file (I'm using Windows XP, it's the same with 98), then it starts to download and says "Saving: filenameA from IP or url". But it's not telling you the whole path to the file - it could be IP/dir1/dir2/filenameA or something like that. Time after time, something gets screwed up when I try to download a big file this way. I just lost a 162MB file that was almost done downloading when some other program had popped up a little window in front of the "saving" popup window, and I clicked to cancel the other popup but my download got canceled too by accident. Or else you lose your dial-up connection. Here's IBM's stupid form: form method="post" action="/dl/swws/swwsgddb-ftpdl" input type="hidden" name="REG_FTPINFO" value="207.25.253.61:webusers:webservers/hpbuilder/v60/windows/hpb6tall.exe" input type="hidden" name="REG_SOURCE" value="swwsgddb" input type="hidden" name="TICKET" value="" input type="hidden" name="S_PKG" value="dlhpbwnt" input type="hidden" name="SDFticket" value="Xa=3:Xb=0.hFExs050b7bd:Xc=swwsgddb:Xd=:Xe=:Xf=:Xg=1369798:Xh=en_US:Xi=swwsgddb:XY=regsrvs:XZ=AzlVzE6sBUsLMJVtfGFgCRXwmDYUeHkTzJaphWzH7Hewv8ZvFnn1BIQEYDsreQBI2AoMZWRrQjK5JhNDn9422w==" input type="image" src="/rsimages/sdl/download_now.gif" alt="Download now" border="0"/form I didn't have any experience with ftp searches before, but I tried doing ftp search for the target file (hpb6tall.exe) without any success. Is there a way I can make this kind of hopeless download resumable with GoZilla or any other program?

I am not 100% sure but Download Accelerator Plus has an option to Always Resume. If Click Monitoring is working correctly, it usually catches the download and from that point on, resuming is easy. That's the best I can come up with but I am sure someone out there would know more ....

I've probably tried most download accelerators but finally settled on the brilliant Flashget from www.amazesoft.com and never looked back. Don't forget though that not all sites support resume.

OK, I will look into Flashget. But I just discovered a partial solution to my situation. When I clicked on a Form button to download one of those big files, I noticed in the status bar that it said "Downloading from ftp://webusers:7h7zblahblah..blah..", and it was a URL that I had not seen in the page source or anywhere else (in other words, the script in the form must have produced it). To be able to save it, I clicked the shortcut button I use to copy anything displayed on my computer screen, and selected a rectangle around the ftp URL (it is very long) so it would be saved for me to copy. Then I started CuteFTP, typed that ftp URL into the Quickconnect, clicked enter, and it worked. However, I don't know that this download is resumable either. But knowing the exact URL to the file is a step forward, and downloading with CuteFTP is much more stable, because those little popup "saving as" windows are too easy to accidently cancel. If someone knows how to force a file to be resumable, even from sites that supposedly don't allow it, please let me know. User comments say Flashget lets you manage downloads even from sites that don't want to let you, so now I'll try that. Also, is there a way to have everything that appears in the status bar stored in a log? That way a person could look into the log to get that long ftp URL, or to investigate whatever they needed about all the stuff that flashes across the status bar. Any way to do this?

this is so easy, and yet most people don't know it. your whole problem is that you don't know the exact location of the file, right? so all you have to do is to find out. all you have to do is to start the download with mozilla/netscape browsers. they will show the real location of the file, circumventing anti-leech and other protections, obfuscation and whatever. then copy and paste the url from the netscape download window into your download manager. with the real url the download manager should have no problems

you are also asking "Also, is there a way to have everything that appears in the status bar stored in a log?" to do that, use webwasher.com as a proxy. apart from being a wonderful banner killer (insert words like "fastclick", "*/ad/*", "doubleclick", "*/banner/*", "http://*.*/banner*.*/" into the block list, and you will kill millions of banners on the web automatically), it will also log all addresses which you called in the browser that uses the proxy. start webwasher, click on "proxy engine", there's a check box for the activation of the access log.