Here you can find detailed answers to the following frequently asked questions:

What is a proxy server?
Why were some links not found by ScanDL?
What is a URL?
How do I look for the URL of an HTML page?
How can I configure my download manager to monitor the clipboard?

Error messages:
When I start ScanDL or when I search files for links, the bug report window always appears (error 430)!

"Multiple-step OLE DB operation generated errors. Check each OLE DB status value, if available. No work was done."
"[ADODC]: Unknown error. [ADO]:"

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1) What is a proxy server?

A proxy server is a computer that acts as an interstation resp. as a cache while surfing in the internet (but works also for e.g. FTP). You have to configure your browser to use a proxy.
I.e. if you surf to www.heise.de, the browser sends its request directly to the server www.heise.de that sends back the data directly to your computer's browser.
In contrast to a proxy the browser sends its request for the address www.heise.de to the proxy server. The proxy server gets the data from the server www.heise.de and sends them to the browser. Because the proxy manages the whole traffic, visited sites can be saved in its cache that will optimize speed and bandwidth.

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2) Why were some links not found by ScanDL?

Dynamic (generated with variable values) JavaScript links will not be found, e.g.:

<a href="javascript:window.open('http://www.ScanDL.com/' + filename)">
"filename" is a variable that can get different values.

If other filetypes' files were not found, please send us the saved file with those links.

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a) What is a URL?
b) How do I look for the URL of an HTML page?

a) A URL (Uniform Ressource Locator) is the WWW's special addressing form to get documents.
A URL consist of several parts: The protocol's name, a colon, two slashs (/) and the computer's Internet address, the path where the file is located and the filename.

Example: URL="http://www.ScanDL.com/aFolder/aFile.html"
The protocol is in this case http.
The ScanDL' WWW server's address.
The file that will be transfered is located in the subdirectory /aFolder/ and its name is aFile.html.

b) If you surfed to a website do as follows:

For Internet Explorer users:

• right click in the document that has been loaded into the Internet Explorer
• In the context menu, choose the option "Preferences"
• select and copy the displayed URL

For Netscape Navigator users:

• right click in the document that has been loaded into the Netscape Navigator
• In the context menu, choose the option "Direct access"
• select and copy the displayed URL

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4) How can I configure my download manager to monitor the clipboard?

The menus' and the areas' names may differ from the listed ones if you use another language version.

For GetRight® users:

• Start the GetRight® configurations (in the menu Tools, GetRight Configuration)
• on the left, choose "Monitor" from "General"
• activate the option Monitor clipboard (for URLs copied to the clipboard) in the area Monitoring

For ReGet users:

• Start the ReGet Integrations configurations (in the menu Settings, Integration)
• choose "Monitor clipboard" from "Clipboard"

For Go!Zilla users:

• Start the Go!Zilla options (in the menu Go!, Options)
• choose the category Automation "Monitor Clipboard" from "Clipboard"

For FlashGet users:

• Start the FlashGet options (in the menu Tools, Options...)
• choose "Monitor" from "Clipoard"

For Mass Downloader users:

• Start the Mass Downloader options (in the menu View, Options...)
• choose in the category Integration, Clipboard Monitor clipboard

For Download Accelerator users:

• Start the Download Accelerator options (in the menu Downloads, Options / Configurations)
• choose in the category General Monitor URLs in clipboard

For NetAnts users:

• choose in the menu Option Clipboard Monitor

For Net Vampire users:

• choose in the menu Input Monitor clipboard

For GetSmart users:

• Start the GetSmart options (in the menu Edit, Configuration)
• choose in the category Automation Catch URLs from Clipboard

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5) Error messages

If an error occured when you started ScanDL or when you searched files for links, download the "VB 6.0 SP5: Run-Time Redistribution Pack"

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6) Ado error messages:

If error messages like ...
"Multiple-step OLE DB operation generated errors. Check each OLE DB status value, if available. No work was done."
or
"[ADODC]: Unknown error. [ADO]:"
... appear, it is not possible to liaise a database connection. I.e. that ScanDL can neither log found URLs nor search for already found URLs.
Download the new version of ScanDL to avoid this problem.
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