Re: External dowloaders

I'm no expert on this, but I am fairly certain the downloaders don't 
actually have to be downloaders.  I seem to recall many years ago I had 
my lynx rigged to launch alternative programs that would play various 
audio file formats when clicked on those files. I also heard a sighted 
individual used it to watch videos on their dos machine, though I can't 
remember if they used that particular mechanism to trigger it or not.

Of course, I haven't done this in several years, so my understanding 
could be flawed, but assuming my memory isn't broken, then I'm pretty 
sure you can call external programs to process the files, and they don't 
necessarily need to be programs that actually download the files.


On 1/25/2022 9:42 PM, Luke, Shellworld Support wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2022, Tathastu Pandya via Lynx-dev wrote:
>
>> use aria2c as downloader for lynx Cananyone help??
> Do you mean that when lynx finds a torrent or similar link, it will invoke
> aria2c on it, instead of using its own download mechanism?
> If so, I don't think it can be done.
>
> The talk of "downloaders" in lynx.cfg, says this:
>
> # <command>    is the command your system will execute:
> #              the 1st %s in the command will be replaced
> #              by the temporary filename used by Lynx;
>
> That suggests that lynx *always* downloads the file by its own means,
> before using your downloader.
>
> Downloaders seem mainly intended for people with dialup terminal
> connections, to use sz or similar on the file to get it off the server and
> on to their local machine more conveniently.
> Probably not applicable to most modern use cases.
>
> I think you're looking for something that will output the currently
> selected URL to an external downloading command such as aria2c, and I
> don't think Lynx can do that.
>
> If you mean something else, please use more words to describe it.
>
> Luke
>