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Friday, December 14, 2007

eSnips : Download problem solved



[ Referred from some other's blog]

An easy way to dupe eSnips into letting all users to download mp3 files freely. I posted a few tips & tricks to download music files, button or no button. After posting these tips I was still uncertain whether all users would go as far as searching the Cache of Internet Explorer or even downloading Flashget and follow the instructions given in the post.

As most of us are not techies or for that matter even computer savvy, I pursued in my quest to find an easier way out and make things easier for fellow eSnippers. At last I discovered a big security lapse at the eSnips server.

Now as you open an user's music folder you need to click on the music file you want to play. I presume that most of you want that file to play in a new window but many of you just click the link and the player opens up in the same window. In both the cases the window will look like the image given below :


As you can see the URL in the Internet Explorer or Firefox address bar looks like this :

http://www.esnips.com/doc/41b2572e-dbe7-488f-ade5-6b1eeedb8fbe/Salam-e-ishq

Now click your mouse in the address bar itself and change doc (after http://www.esnips.com/) to nsdoc and remove the name of the file (including the slash), in this case : /Salam-e-ishq. Your modified URL in the address bar will now look like this (you may check out this trick by clicking on the following URL ):

http://www.esnips.com/nsdoc/41b2572e-dbe7-488f-ade5-6b1eeedb8fbe

Now just press Enter. Lo and behold your file is ready for download. No need for downloading Flashget or searching fervently for your needed file in the ever bloated Internet Explorer Cache.

You will see this window after you press Enter :

This window will inadvertently remind you of the good-old-days of the green download button and may drive you to nostalgia. Just click on Save and watch your mp3 being downloaded as before.

Good old downloading days are here again .... till eSnips catches up with this too.


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Aah eet ees a-workeeeng.. :) Good catch buddy!

Sumeet Sahu said...

Hi,

eSnips has found out this flaw and now this hack will not work to download files from the site.

There is another but longer way to download from esnip which I will publish soon as soon as I get some free time.

Regards
Sumeet Sahu

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