Matthew Toseland wrote: >That is a horrible kludge - what is the user expected to do with the >garbage file? > > Thinking about it some more I think it's probably unworkable - I was hoping to redirect the browser away from the dummy download somehow so it is simply cancelled, relying on the browser to remove any partially downloaded file. However, I don't think there's actually any way to do this as the download is independant of the page that started it, and redirecting that page won't affect any download in progress and there's no JavaScript/DOM interface to downloads in progress.
What about a small JavaScript download manager - that could poll FProxy for download progress so FProxy need not push progress updates on the browser? -- degs >On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:53:04AM +0100, junk at giantblob.com wrote: > > >>Sorry - not sure if I've misunderstood your answer or if you didn't get >>my suggestion. If the former then apologies in advance for banging on >>and I'll go back to quietly lurking :-) >> >>I'm suggesting a method for making the user's browser display a progress >>bar for us while a split-file download progresses to private download >>area within Fred: >> - User requests splitfile download, e.g. by clicking on link within >>FProxy >> - Fred/FProxy reports dummy filesize to browser of, say, 100k >> - Meanwhile Fred downloads splitfile in background, in whatever >>block order, to private file owned by Fred >> - as background download progresses, FProxy returns garbage to >>browser at a bitrate of, e.g., 1k per 1-percent split-file successfully >>downloaded >> - Browser displays percentage bar for us based on its view of how >>complete the 100k dummy download is >> - When split-file complete, FProxy redirects browser to a special >>link, that when navigated to, streams the downloaded splitfile from >>Fred's private file >> >>-- jeek >> >>Matthew Toseland wrote: >> >> >> >>>Eek. >>> >>>Square peg, round hole. >>> >>>We have to download to disk, this is the only reasonable option. >>>However, we can do it inside Fred. >>> >>> >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Devl mailing list >>>Devl at freenetproject.org >>>http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl >>>
