Eek. Square peg, round hole.
We have to download to disk, this is the only reasonable option. However, we can do it inside Fred. On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:32:15PM +0100, junk at giantblob.com wrote: > What about this for a glorious kludge? > large file downloads from fproxy actually trigger the 'download' of > a modest size dummy file, the progress of which is matched to the > progress of the actual split-file download - this provides the users' > standard browser UI/feedback for a download > when the download is 99% complete, fproxy redirects the browser to a > link to the actual download, which then completes instantly > > -- jeek > > Colin Davis wrote: > > >I just fail to see what an applet gains that can't be done with an > >XMLHttpRequest and a properly written webpage. This is a file that's > >going to be downloading over minutes/hours. We don't exactly need up > >to the second status updates, and even if we did, we can do that > >purely in the browser. > > > > > >There's UI tricks you could do to make it less difficult to check, if > >you really wanted to go that route. You could have a fproxy option to > >append a frame onto the side/top of all pages, similiar to the > >GoogleCache frame. > >I'm note sure of the feasibility, but couldn't the you feed one or two > >bits / second to the download, just enough to make it not time out? > >That way, when I click a link in fproxy, it starts a download, in my > >browser's exsiting download manager. Freenet continues to feed one or > >two bits of garbage/whitespace/whatever to the download every few > >seconds, to prevent a time out. From my perspective, it would look > >like any other download, just take a long time. When freenet > >internally finished downloading the file, it can just give the rest of > >the bits to the browser, which thinkgs it's been downloading the whole > >time. > > > >These are just examples, and not very good ones at that. But there's a > >lot of things that /could/ be done to make it feel like it belongs in > >a browser. > > > >Just a few random thoughts, > >Colin -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20050831/93101348/attachment.pgp>
