Re: [PATCHES] Better use of download directory.

Tommi Komulainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 01:05, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> 
>>Le lun 07/07/2003 à 00:35, Crispin Flowerday a écrit :
>>
>>
>>>1) The external download program isn't used for that many things, e.g.
>>>File/Save as doesn't actually use it (and neither does right clicking on
>>>items on a page and selecting save). Is this behaviour on purpose?
>>
>>I'd say it's a bug, it was readded a bit late in the galeon2 development
>>process iirc, philipl probably knows more about that.
> 
> 
> I think it's probably intentional.  I'm guessing Save As can get the
> file from cache right away, making it significantly faster.  And now
> that I said that out loud, the difference between Save and Download is
> actually making sense to me too ;)

Yes, this was intentional. Only the unknown content handler in mozilla
and context_menu->download will go to the external handler for the
reasons stated above. if the current page is the result of a dynamic
CGI or similar, the only way to save it properly is to use mozilla's
built in routines.

--phil



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