On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 08:16:56PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Matthew Toseland (toad at amphibian.dyndns.org) wrote: > > > No, most browsers will ask you where to save, then open a "download" > > window, if you click on a link to a file with an unknown MIME type, when > > in a web page, regardless of which OS you are using. > > OK, but I was talking about how I personally download files. Which > is to right click the URL, select "copy link location", then paste > the URL into an rxvt window after typing "wget ". > > If you guys could get *that* to work, without any Javascript getting > in the way, or splitfile dialogs, I'd be an *extremely* happy little > Freeneter! :) (But I don't expect that to happen.) What Accept: header does wget send? > > Of course that doesn't work right now -- you have to wade through > a fairly clumsy interface and press a second button just to *start* > the splitfile download -- and that button isn't visible unless you > scroll the top frame downward! -- and then you *still* have to deal > with the web browser's dialogs. So right now, from my point of > view, the interface is about as bad as it could possibly be, except > if you added mandatory Javascript to it. (Not that you'd do that.) > > Anyway... is there a point to this? Probably not. > > -- > Greg Wooledge | "Truth belongs to everybody." > greg at wooledge.org | - The Red Hot Chili Peppers > http://wooledge.org/~greg/ |
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