On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 02:23:48 UTC, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory L. Marx) wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 20:46:55 UTC, "Andreas Ludwig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On 6 Aug 2002 11:14:53 GMT, Gregory L. Marx wrote: > > > > >Are you talking about the download/save-as dialog box ??? > > >If so, that's not what I'm referencing ... When I click on a link to a > > >ZIP file in a PMMail message for example ... > > > > Why don't you try AWGet for downloads from any app? I use it for ages now and > > it's really nice. Downloads (w/ reget support), can be configured to download > > files to specific directories (different folders to drop URL objects to) and > > even saves the URL of the file in the EAs. > > > > Ah. Forgot to mention - you might also want DragText for easy URL creation > > from text - but surely you have it already, even more cool now with these new > > OverDrag features.. > > I appreciate the info ... and I do use AWGET ... and just plain old > WGET ... > But none of those have anything to do with the original point of my > post ... > > Simply put ... Why have a EMPTY Mozilla window open when accessing a > URL of the format: > > http://www.somesite.com/filename.zip -or- > http://www.somesite.com/filename.exe > > As I said in my original post ... a minor nit to be sure ... Firstly, why I don't think this is a good idea: PMMail shouldn't decide: it's not it's job and I don't think it should be trying to interpret the link. It might get it wrong. On the Mozilla size: Mozilla can't know what a link is until it starts to retrieve it. While the two examples will normally be for downloading a file, the latter could easily be to run something on the server and send back a web-page (and yes I have seen a page served in this way). So, Mozilla needs to retrieve the header info for this before it can decide what to do. Also, there might be an error. So, Mozilla needs something to control this, and display anything necessary. And, of course, Mozilla uses a browser window to do this. Of course, there is a way to do what your asking. Set PMMail to use DDE and "open URLs in currently running browser", and turn DDE on in Mozilla. And, they have to agree on the name of the DDE server to be used. PMMail has the name of the Netscape DDE server hard-coded, so you have to make sure that's what Mozilla is using. I think Mozilla defaults to the same thing, but, I'm not sure. I think it can be configured, but, if it can't you can probably use NETSCDDE.EXE from XWorkplace to achieve the same affect. -- David Forrester davidfor at internode dot on dot net http://www.os2world.com/djfos2
