Open Notepad and drag the .ram file into it to view
the URL inside. If the URL begins with http://, you can probably
download it normally, again following the routine in the ???Download
Files Without Viewing Them??? sidebar. On the other hand, if the URL
begins with rtsp:// (which stands for Real Time Streaming Protocol),
you??™ll need a special program capable of downloading the stream to a file.
Copy the URL (highlight and press Ctrl-C) and paste it (Ctrl-V) into a
program like CoCSoft Stream Down (http://stream-down.cocsoft.com),
shown in Figure 4-7, or WMRecorder (http://www.wmrecorder.com).
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Download Files Without Viewing Them
Type a URL into your browser??™s address bar and hit Enter, and the browser
will attempt to display the file in its own window or launch the associated
player. Only if the file can??™t be displayed (such as a .zip or .exe), will you get
a standard Save As dialog. But what if you want to save (download) a file the
browser wants to open, such as a video?
If you??™re using Mozilla SeaMonkey, this is easy. Instead of pressing the Enter
key in the address bar, press Shift-Enter to save the file instead of opening it.
This won??™t work in Internet Explorer or Firefox, though, so you??™ll need a
slightly trickier method for those browsers.
Open Notepad and paste the URL of the file you want to download. In front
of the URL, add this text:
downloadSave the file on your desktop as download.
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