Downloading problem at rdf.dmoz.org/rdf/

I went to: http://rdf.dmoz.org/rdf/ and tried to
download; structure.rdf.u8 and content.rdf.u8.
Problem:structure.rdf.u8 that is 280MB would not
stop downloading, before I cancelled the total
download was 750MB. It was like the file kept
loopng the same download. The same thing happened
with content.rdf.u8. I tried this on 2 differnt
computers. Equpiment: PC runnung, XP Pro, download
rate; 300kb/sec. Can the webmaster answer this. -TH-

Did you try downloading the .gz files from http://rdf.dmoz.org/

Hmm. I just downloaded the kt-content.rdf.u8.gz (which is supposed to be 2MB) and I got a 12 MB file. I went back a month repeated the download and observed the same behavior with that version of the file.

If you're downloading with Internet Explorer, it has a nasty habit of uncompressing it while downloading. The file size is for the compressed version. Due to the size of the files, it really isn't possible to download with IE. On Windows, I've found that Opera is the easiest to use for that.

Did you "left-click" to download, or "right click and open in new window", or "right click and save file as.."?

The latter method might work for you in IE. The others probably would not.


Alternative. Get a browser like Mozilla, and use it for the job. You'll soon see how shoddy the Infector Extraordinaire really is. Mozilla 1.6 is a superb modern browser.

getting a similar problem....'badly formed' error

Hi Ted,

I just posted a similar question else where and discovered u r dealing with the issue.

So using Mozz 1.7.1, (which I love btw :>) I get an error that says:

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://musicmoz.org/xml/musicmoz.releases.xml.bz2
Line Number 1, Column 8:BZh91AY&SYc����w2����������2

What am doing wrong?

Thanks

Frank