Re: Download manager and proxies

[Henry Baldursson <henry baldursson gmail com>]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:11:01 +0100 (CET), Reinout van Schouwen
<reinouts gnome org> wrote:
> Glad you found Epiphany in Ubuntu, as Firefox seems to be the default
> browser. :-)
Yeah. Firefox is Ubuntu's default. They do maintain a very good
package for Epiphany and Epiphany extensions in their repository.
Also, it seems one of the main Ubuntu developers uses Epiphany
exclusively:
https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228
 
> Everyone agrees (I think) that the current download manager can be
> improved. There are two things suggested here which might happen:
> 
> 1) Move 'simple' download tasks to Nautilus
> 2) Let epiphany extensions handle complicated downloader functions.
> 
> Number 2 has already been implemented; see 
Yeah, that does looks kind of cool, but I don't think gwget has the
makings of an application that has a shot at getting included in the
Gnome mainline:

>From gwget_data_start_download():
>	       pid = fork ();
>        if (pid == 0) {
>            /* Child process */
>            gint arg;
>            gchar *argv[20];
>        /*  gchar *opt; */
>
>            /* Set stderr of child process to one end of the pipe. The father
>             * process reads child output throught the pipe */
>            close (pipe_fd[0]);
>            dup2 (pipe_fd[1], 2);
>			
>            /* 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++;
>
>	    }
>	    
>	    argv[arg] = NULL;
>			
>			/* Set Language to C. This must be done or we will not be able
>             * to parse the wget output */
>            putenv ("LC_ALL=C");
>
>            /* Everything ready run wget */
>            execvp ("wget", argv);

Not to piss in anyone's pool, but a download manager as a frontend for
a command-line downloader doesn't get my juices flowing. :-)
It has no viable option for extending the content it can handle, and
would have to rely on wget making handlers for certain URI's like
torrents and such, and I don't see that happening.

Thanks for the kind welcome, Reinout, and hello to all on the list :-)