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I tried this, it works with URLs pointing to websites - but not to a dmg file on a website.

Any idea on how to start a download of a file on OSX?

DoubleDutch wrote:I tried this, it works with URLs pointing to websites - but not to a dmg file on a website.

Any idea on how to start a download of a file on OSX?

Have you already tried installgentoo's DownloadFromURL() example code? I have just successfully downloaded a dmg file with his code.

Thanks for the link, not seen it before. Will take a look.

ReceiveHTTPFile () should also be OK with 5.20.

I was thinking of something external (under the users control) that would start the download - like on Windows if you start IE with a url that contains a file it will start to download it.

I've got around it by pointing to a normal webpage, then the actual website initiates the download by doing a redirect after a couple of seconds.