File Download Issue -Urgent plz

[vimalpercy]

Hello
I have a requirment where i should provide link to user to download certain files.
I want to hide the information from the user the link details.
So i use FSO like this but it gave error plz let me know what i am doing wrong

Set oFS = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set oStream = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")
oStream.Open
oStream.Type = 1
oStream.LoadFromFile DwnRs.fields("DownloadLink")
response.contenttype = "application/binary"
response.binarywrite oStream.read

DwnRs.fields("DownloadLink") will contains the url from which the file can be downloaded.
it can be any url irrespective of the server in which the asp page resides.
eg DwnRs.fields("DownloadLink")=http://www.sitepoint.com/helpneeded.exe

thanks in advance
with regards
vimal

[vimalpercy]

the error which i am getting is
Error Type:
ADODB.Stream (0x800A0BBA)
File could not be opened.

[vimalpercy]

if i use
response.redirect(http://www.sitepoint.com/helpneeded.exe)
is it a must that the server should be installed with IIS?

with regards
vimal

[kgh]

Are the files hosted localy on the server or on other domain names?

[vimalpercy]

Due to traffic and band width problem, files are in different servers.
and i store the link of the file name in the database.
with regards
vimal

[Thing]

If you are sending the user to a URL then yes IIS or some type of web server must be installed and running. Is that an example of the path you are sending the user to?

[vimalpercy]

I am not showing the url to the user, if it means then problem would be solved where i just give the link in a <a></a> tag.
But what my problem is , i should hide the path of the server where the file is coming from, and so i planned to send via asp FSO object binary method.But it didnt work and the code which i used, i have put in first message of this thread.
When i used response.redirect() it worked.but my question is weather it will work in all webserver which dont have iis also.
with regards
vimal

[dhtmlgod]

I think the problem is that the file isn't sitting with the code on the same machine, and your trying to use an address like "http://blah.com/file.exe", yeah? If so, I don't think the code is going to work...

I may be wrong, I've never tried that with ASP, nor ASP.NET for that matter...

[xfairguy]

dhtmlgod is not wrong you must refer to local files not remote files.

[kgh]

You could probably make something using XMLHTTP and binarywrite...