Re: Download manager and proxies

["Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo debian org>]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 10:04:23PM +0000, Henry Baldursson wrote:

 > >            /* Set common arguments */
 > >            argv[0] = "wget";
 > >            argv[1] = "-v";                   /* Verbose */
 > >            argv[2] = "-P";                   /* Use directory prefix */
 > >            argv[3] = gwgetdata->dir;         /* Directory prefix */
 > >            argv[4] = gwgetdata->url;         /* Url to download */
 > >            argv[5] = "-c";                   /* Continue download */
 > >            argv[6] = "-t";                   /* Number of retries */
 > >            argv[7] = g_strdup_printf ("%d", gwget2_pref.num_retries); 
 > >			/* argv[7] = "1"; */
 > >            /* argv[8] = "-T";                    Wget timeout */
 > >            /* argv[9] = g_strdup_printf ("%d", gtm_pref.read_timeout); >*/
 > >	    
 > >            arg = 8;
 > >	    /* Preferences */
 > >	    if (gwgetdata->recursive) {
 > >		/* recursive options */
 > >		/* In the next releases will be configurable */
 > >		argv[arg]="-r";
 > >		arg++;
 > >		argv[arg]="-L";
 > >		arg++;

 What's missing from there is:

    * Cookies
    * Referrer
    * HTTP Authentication

 At some point in time I have coded an Apache Authen handler that
 requires, among other things, all these three in order to let you
 download a file.

 This means there should be some protocol in order to pass this
 information between the download manager and Epiphany.  Back in the
 days of yore (aka, Galeon + GTM) I thought this would be handled via
 bonobo, but it seems that's not hip anymore...

 Marcelo