On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 03:32:59PM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 02:55:33PM -0500, Greg Wooledge spake thusly: > > Also, the screen should update itself without the user having to > > manually go to it and click "Update". This is *ESPECIALLY* important > > when the upload or download is completed. If I come home and find > > that my "CHK@" splitfile upload is still sitting there, and I click > > "Update", and it tells me "Sorry, bogus context, dude, you're like, > > too late", then I have to do it all over again to learn what the > > CHK@ key is. > > Your browser window doesn't meta referesh like it should? I agree that it > is a less than optimal situation. The stateless nature of http (or our > desire to make it do things it was not designed to do) is a constant > headache. How about a helper download application/applet that will talk > directly to fred so it can give real-time % downloaded information and > not tie up a browser window and cause refresh problems?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Swing or even AWT GUI code is going into the main freenet CVS module over my dead body. > > > (Or I could use the command line. But if this is affecting me, it's > > going to affect others who *won't* be able to use the command line.) > > I do this quite often. But is there any easy way to url-decode a filename > from a webpage to make it suitable for the command line? Some files have > lots of funny characters that get encoded. I could write a little perl > script to do it I suppose but it seems like there should be a better way. Hrmm. > > -- > Tracy Reed http://www.ultraviolet.org -- Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Full time freenet hacker. http://freenetproject.org/ Freenet Distribution Node (temporary) at http://80-192-4-36.cable.ubr09.na.blueyonder.co.uk:8889/wm4mHw9otH4/ ICTHUS.
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