On 02/24, Daniel Carl wrote:
> - the number of running downloads could be tracked internal and decremented if
> the external download tool finished
It would be nice if this information could be displayed like [D:3] or [D(3)]
on the status bar.
> - and if the downloader returns the real download target path to stdout, we
> could possibly display this in the inputbox of the window where the download
> was started if the user does not type into it
This doesn't seems really useful, because if an external downloader changes
name/path of downloaded file on purpose, there is no need to notify a user
about it, since the user is aware of what his script is doing.
> - the download target path prediction could be left in vimb and given as
> parameter to the downloader
>
> ...
>
> Following parameters are useful/required for the downloader:
>
> - URI of the download.
> - Suggested download path so we can keep the `:save` command that takes a user
> defined path as agrument.
> - Path to the cookie file, at the moment $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vimb/cookies.
> - Referer the page from which the download was started, could be empty if the
> `:save path` command was used.
> - User agent string that is used by vimb (if the application performs any
> checks on it).
I think this could be done with variables as it is done in dwb (another
lightweight web browser). From dwb man page:
download-external-command
A command that will be invoked if download-use-external-program is
set. There are four variables that can be used in the command:
dwb_uri
will be replaced with the download-uri, dwb_output will be replaced
with the fullpath of the destination, dwb_cookies will be replaced
with the path to the cookie-file, dwb_referer will be replaced with
the uri of the site the download started, dwb_proxy will be replaced
with the proxy url if dwb uses a proxy. Additionally the
environment-variables DWB_URI, DWB_FILENAME, DWB_COOKIES,
DWB_REFERER,
DWB_MIME_TYPE, DWB_PROXY and DWB_USER_AGENT are set. Default value:
xterm -e wget dwb_uri -O dwb_output --load-cookies dwb_cookies.
So vimb simply passes these variables to an external downloader which can use
them
afterwards.
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