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| This allows you to specify a refering page. Example: If you have dragged a link from a page onto Bukster you can enter that page as the referring URL. Some sites will not allow a file to be downloaded unless the referring URL is a certain value, but you have choosen to download the file with Bukster instead of your web browser.
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| Example: If you have the page http://www.sometestserver.com/index.html open in your browser and click on a link for http://www.sometestserver.com/freeprogram.zip the server will see that the referring URL is http://www.sometestserver.com/index.html. However if you paste the .zip URL directly into your browser address bar and hit enter, the referrer will be blank, so the server may not allow you to download it. It is for this reason that you have the option of specifying referrers in Bukster. There are 3 different referrer types you can specify: Blank, AutoSpoof and Constant.
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| SoMe $ites send out altered or even erroneous HTTP headers if you do not use a certain browser/HTTP agent. For this reason you can "pretend" to be using a browser, so as to allow you access to the otherwise publically available resources.
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| If you want to browse the web or use a P2P client while downloading with Bukster, you can tell Bukster not to use up all your available bandwidth speed. Tick the box and enter a max speed for Bukster.
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| -Bypass Proxy Cache: Between you and the target server, there maybe one or more proxy cache servers that your requests are routed through. A proxy cache server stores a copy of often requested web data. When a requested is routed through one, it checks to see if it already has a copy of the requested resource. If so it will send that back to you, so you may end up with an out of date resource. Select this option to force the retrieval of an up to date resource.
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| -Allow Cookies: This is included to allow future feature enhancement. Cookies are currently supported, but on it's own it doesn't do very much, as this is a file downloader not a browser. In future it will allow to login to Web systems (web forums, download areas etc.) when you specify cookie values, as used in your browser.
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| -Allow HTTP redirects: Sometimes a webserver will redirect you to a page for example, in your browser, if you entered http://www.mytestserver.com/ it might redirect you to http://www.mytestserver.com/home/index.php. These are not META-REFRESH redirects, but HTTP header redirects (location header value specified with no body). Sometimes a malicious web developer might redirect your browser from one page to another and back, in a infinite redirection loop that could crash your browser, or form part of a DDoS attack on the server, for this reason you must specify a maximum redirection limit for the original URL.
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| This is the chunk size, in bytes, that will be Read from and Written to your net connection socket. As Bukster is a file downloader, it is wise to have a Big RxBuffer and a Small SendBuffer. But you may experiment to see which works best for you and your net connection speed. The download status information in the main tab is updated when a chunk has been read from the socket --> small RxBuffer=Update often
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| If you access the net through a proxy server, enter the details here. You can click the "Detect IE Proxy" to fill in the details the Internet Explorer™ uses to access the net. Not tested on any GNU Linux/Codeweavers™ WINE/Win4Lin combination.
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