How to save an mp4 video link to specified client pc path via asp.net?

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I want to save an mp4 video link to user's pc's specified local path. Is there any way to do that with asp.net ?

Posted 19-Mar-15 4:34am

kubibay

Updated 19-Mar-15 22:26pm

RajeeshMenoth

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Richard Deeming · Answer 1 · 2015-03-19T04:44:00

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No. The server cannot control where a file is saved on the client. If it could, that would be a significant security hole in the browser.

Posted 19-Mar-15 4:44am

Richard Deeming

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-Mar-15 11:42am

Of course. A 5.
—SA

kubibay 20-Mar-15 4:09am

Ok then , one question;

There are lots of browser extesions which download youtube videos and you can set the download folder,

how they can do that?

Richard Deeming 20-Mar-15 8:17am

Browser extensions run on the client, and have to be explicitly installed by the user. They can do anything that the extension API allows, including many things that code running on the server, and javascript running in a web page, cannot do.

kubibay 23-Mar-15 3:19am

Ok then, if we ingore to specify the save path,
how can we download any youtube,vimeo mp4 link to default download location?

Richard Deeming 23-Mar-15 8:52am

By setting the appropriate response headers and writing the bytes of the file to the response.
Downloading a File with a Save As Dialog in ASP.NET[^]

kubibay 24-Mar-15 3:49am

Thanks for your reply,

It seem first I need to download to the server to save as to local pc.
If there is no way to download any mp4 link to user local storage then i will try this way.
Thanks