On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 02:55:33PM -0500, Greg Wooledge spake thusly:
> Also, the screen should update itself without the user having to
> manually go to it and click "Update".  This is *ESPECIALLY* important
> when the upload or download is completed.  If I come home and find
> that my "CHK@" splitfile upload is still sitting there, and I click
> "Update", and it tells me "Sorry, bogus context, dude, you're like,
> too late", then I have to do it all over again to learn what the
> CHK@ key is.

Your browser window doesn't meta referesh like it should? I agree that it
is a less than optimal situation. The stateless nature of http (or our
desire to make it do things it was not designed to do) is a constant
headache. How about a helper download application/applet that will talk
directly to fred so it can give real-time % downloaded  information and
not tie up a browser window and cause refresh problems?

> (Or I could use the command line.  But if this is affecting me, it's
> going to affect others who *won't* be able to use the command line.)

I do this quite often. But is there any easy way to url-decode a filename
from a webpage to make it suitable for the command line? Some files have
lots of funny characters that get encoded. I could write a little perl
script to do it I suppose but it seems like there should be a better way.

-- 
Tracy Reed      http://www.ultraviolet.org
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