On Wednesday 08 December 2010 06:41:34 Volodya wrote:
> On 12/07/2010 08:30 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 December 2010 04:42:37 Volodya wrote:
> >>> - /download/<key> and the Download link linking to it have been removed. 
> >>> Click the key instead.
> >>> - One reason for this was /download/<key> would not warn the user about 
> >>> dangerous content and would not filter stuff that can be filtered.
> >>> - However you can still get the data on disk from the downloads/ 
> >>> directory, or click on the key and download it from there.
> >>
> >> I think it was a poor design decision. All the octet-streams fail now. You 
> >> need
> >> to click on the key and it quickly downloads it (how quick depends on the 
> >> file)
> >> after that you must once again click on force browser to download.
> >
> > The bugs, such as there were, are fixed. In particular, we no longer show 
> > the file length warning, and clicking on "force your browser to download to 
> > disk" still uses the downloads as a cache i.e. works instantly.
> 
> Yep, i can confirm those bugs were fixed. Thanks for your work.
> 
> >> The process is counterintuitive. If you tell the user that you download to 
> >> the
> >> temporary space, the user should be able to download to disk after it 
> >> completes
> >> and not look for a work around all the error messages. The errors are 
> >> there even
> >> if you turn off the content filter.
> >
> > If you turn off the content filter for that download then click on the key 
> > again then yes you still get the warning. This is because it is far too 
> > easy to download stuff by accident. Should we skip the confirmation and 
> > show potentially dangerous content immediately? IMHO it is unrealistic to 
> > expect the user to remember what was filtered and what was not.
> 
> While i agree with your logic, your solution is a bit strange, you assume the
> user actually wanted the content filter. Maybe it would be better to have
> something like advanced mode showing if the content filter is turned on?
> 
> In the basic mode i think you are correct, it's better to show the warning, 
> and
> then allow direct download if the person chooses to do that.

I guess we could list them separately but is it really worth the complexity?

Also this isn't about filtering, it's about dangerous content types, which we 
can't filter.

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