Some feedback on this nifty extension

[email protected] Sun, 29 Dec 2002 14:09:17 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.leech
Message-ID <3E0F020D.1573.11316F1@localhost>
lI have just been playing round under Windows 2000 and Mozilla V1.2.1 
with version 1.5.0 of Leech and have found the extension to work 
quite well as promised. However, I have stumbled across some 
inconveniences which should be corrected.


---Paths with spaces in them---
Directories (and probably also files) with spaces in them (maybe 
other situations too), referred from now on as "problematic", are not 
handled correctly, at least when deferring download to wget. The 
problematic combinations are numerous, so I will only point from the 
top of my head a couple of them:
-If wget (and/or its temporary path?) is in a problematic directory, 
no download will occur.
-When destination directory is problematic, only the first part of 
the path is taken as the destination and the rest is interpreted as 
(several) files.

The use of MSDOS pathnames might be a quick-hack solution to the 
problem (double quoting the pathname to try to make it seem as one 
argument only won't work), but it is ugly for the user, so I think it 
is a big priority, since the error isn't very descriptive nor does 
there seem to be an elegant solution for the user other than avoiding 
problematic paths.

The problem doesn't seem to happen when using the pre-wget methods.


---Wrong destination directory---

I confirm this already reported nuisance when downloading through 
wget where backslashes are substituted by "@5C".


---Prefixing into non-existing directories [pre-wget]---

If the pre-wget leeching methods are still going to be around, it 
would be nice, if at all possible, for directories specified through 
the prefix method to be created when not using wget (can't remember 
how wget fares with this, but I guess that's what the pertinent 
checkbox is for).


---Not abusing when downloading the old way [pre-wget]---
Again, for pre-wget leeching it would be nice if the number of 
simultaneous downloads could be limited to avoid overloading sites 
(and being affected by sites that reply against an abuse of 
connections from the same IP (by rejecting connections, sending error 
messages in place of the file content,....)).


I guess those are the major inconveniences I have found on the 
current Leech release, although, as other posts have shown, there is 
always room for improvement as well as many of us liking the progress 
of the program and encouraging it to best itself. Best regards,


     Gonzalo.