fetch extension - use local filename from
content-dispositionheader (new diff)
Martin Cracauer
cracauer at cons.org
Fri Dec 30 10:43:48 PST 2005
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote on Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 07:38:17PM +0100:
> Martin Cracauer <cracauer at cons.org> writes:
> > When discussing, keep in mind that the user has to explicity give the
> > -O option (there is no environment variable to permanently turn this
> > on) and that the implications of the -O options are very clear and
> > simple. And that the main use of this is for folks who have to go
> > through a gazillion of Bugzilla attachments all name
> > "customer-errlog.20051220" etc, and there is no other way to download
> > them in a name-preserving manner than interactively opening them in
> > Mozilla and saving them.
>
> Are you seriously saying that you find it easier to copy the URL to
> the clipboard and paste it into a terminal window than to just
> right-click the link and select "Save Link As"?
If you have dozens of them in a page, yepp. If you have any kind of
robot, even just a grep from one HTML page, there is nothing else you
can do.
> > Before we randomize the list even more I would say I'd like to hear
> > from the security officer if there is concern left.
>
> It still hasn't occurred to you to ask the fetch maintainer, has it?
> He happens to think it's a terrible hack which breaks the libfetch API
> and leaks memory to boot.
It didn't leak and in any case the new patch uses a static buffer.
Maintainer says "notification requested". If this thread isn't
notification I don't know what.
Please have a look at the new diff which I agree is more in the spirit
of the existing interface.
Martin
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