On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Clarence Verge wrote:
> You must be right there - even tho I had tried twice and got cut off at the
> same point both times, I tried today and with the DEFAULT mime.cfg I got all
> the way through .R00 the first time. Then I tried for .R01 and got 1/2 way
> through before Arachne (or somebody else) decided it was finished.
> I was still connected and everything looked like it was OK, the file was
> just way too short.
> This NEVER happens to me with ZIPs.
Maybe the RAR file was market as text/plain by web server, which is
illegal and it is fault of the server admin, but Arachne should still
download it. But you can't start loading any other offline or online page
while downloading, even if it "background" download...
> I wrote:
> That wasn't the only problem either.
> Arachne put that 130kb in my cache dir. NOT the download dir.
Any download is in cache, until you specify local filename (download.ah
page). It would be good to specify download filename first, especially for
"background" downloads... of course this should be added to some later
versions.
> Michael, that means I can't download a 1.5Mbfile when I only have 2.5Mb
> disk space. Why doesn't the download go directly to \DOWNLOAD ???
Filename problem: final filename is unknown at download time.
> This is TOTALLY illogical.
> I was DOWNLOADing a file.
> I had selected DOWNLOAD in background.
> The status bar said DOWNLOADing file.
Downloading in background was intended rather for downloadiing next HTML
page while reading still current HTML page... so when you click the link
next time, page will load from cache. It was not intended to fix problems
with server sending text/plain content type for binary files. Maybe some
Shift+Click like in Netscape should force download with save-as prompt...
>
> You are again, quite right, Glenn.
> Netscape DID put the file where I wanted, but it ADDED some goobledegook
> in the process. I found a copy of the proper length in the Netscape cache.
ACIII mode instad of binary. But if it was FTP download, then Arachne
really choses binary mode as default...
> Thanks for the help, everyone.
>
> Michael, is it possible to bring up the "Save file" screen at the START of
> file (not page) downloads, and send the download DIRECTLY to the specified
> download directory ?
Not easily. Maybe in some future versions. I am still trying to achieve
basic functionality for web browsing.... and users of Arachne in cell
phones (which I am starting to fell are Arachne's target devices) won't
download many files, I think ;-)
Still, if the download was FTP download, it should automaticaly download
all file types in binary mode and prompt for filename at the end, except
for file extensions defined to be equivalent to HTM or TXT in MIME.CFG
("file/.ext TXT" or "file/.ext HTM" lines).
HTTP downloads are controled by Content-type: line: some lazy webmasters
keep default settings of Apache web server, which doesn't specify .exe,
.arj or .rar to be binary files, and sends text/plain content type for
them...
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