Re: Proposing gwget for Gnome 2.10

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

And since wget is not Epiphany, or Firefox, or Mozilla, or whatever, it
can't access these. Some sites also need a Referrer. There's a lot more
to do than just say "we have a list of things that wget is scheduled to
do" to make a good download manager.

I think it would be better to work on getting some of the various
aspects of the different browsers, and everything, integrated and
working together in a nice, usable manner, than to just run off and try
to work around the issues that come up when browsers try to download
a bunch of things at the same time.

We have a single backend. We just need to fix all the integration
issues, and get people to use it.

-- dobey


On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 09:43 -0500, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 15:34 +0100, Kent Nyberg wrote:
> 
> > I might be wrong, but if gnome-vfs supports these protocols, then maybe
> > nautilus and the browsers should handle the download? Its better to work
> > on nautilus/browsers than making more programs do the same tasks as
> > nautilus.
> 
> There are many other reasons to use a single backend for downloading;
> namely, authentication and cookies.  A lot of downloads will require a
> cookie or login to be set on some early point within the site in order
> for the download to work.  if the download manager can't access these,
> the download will fail.
> 
> > 
> > I might be wrong, but is not these Downloading programs used for example
> > to download files that already is half downloaded, eg interrupted or
> > somathing. If not nautilus supports that, (or the browser) then, its
> > something that should be added there, not in third-party application.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > But thats just my point of view..
> >