New to Smart phones. Decided to get SAmsung Nexus instead of iPhone. Having the following problem. When using browser, I go to
Broomall Fire Company. While on that site I can down load all PDF files without no problem. If I go to member login from site, I'm prompted with uderid & password. When I try to download PDFS from this location, I get download failed for PDF's. Does not happen on iPhones? Thx
The files in the "Member Login" section of that site are protected by .htaccess security, otherwise known as HTTP Basic Authentication. There is a known issue in Android causing the built-in
DownloadManager service ? a "system service that handles long-running HTTP downloads" ? to incorrectly authorize, or not authorize, file downloads behind HTTP Basic Authentication. The short answer is that you're probably not going to have much luck downloading any files behind such a login prompt. I know that it has occasionally been done, but I have seen no evidence to support a clear reason for why it was successful in those specific instances. It's likely something was triggered in the DownloadManager that caused it to correctly authorize the download.
There is a thread around here somewhere about the issue. I spent a few minutes looking for it just now and couldn't find it, but I remember reading it within the last week or so. If I find it, I'll throw up a link here.
Edit: to be clear, for anyone else receiving "download unsuccessful" notices, if you're getting these while downloading files that
do not require HTTPAuth credentials in order to access, then your issue is different. Try the traditional data/cache clearing.