Uwe Koloska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> it would be nice if after requesting a file with the browser and getting
> the answer that wwwoffle has registered this page for download and then
> quitting this download, to have a link back to the page from where I
> started.
>
> The same said easily:
> - click on a link
> - the page is not cached and wwwoffle says that it will be downloaded
> - you decide to quit the download
> - you want to go to the page where you started
>
> Now you have to go the the history and go back 2 pages. Clicking the back
> button two times commands wwwoffle again to download the page (or is this
> wrong?)
The behaviour when you press the back button is dependant on the
browser. For Netscape it will re-request the page, for Lynx it will
not (as pointed out by Christian Knoke).
Personally I think that any browser that does not let you go back
with a single keypress is missing a feature. (I don't count Alt-Left
like Netscape has as a single keypress).
With Netscape you need to press and hold the back button until the
menu appears and select the third item in the list. (I don't know if
this is what you mean by the history?)
There are advantages to doing this than there are to having a link to
take you back two pages:
1) Using the back button removes the pages from the stack that
Netscape remembers. This will save memory in Netscape.
2) Not using the back button leaves open the possibility that you will
press it in future and go back to the "WillGet" page.
3) Using the back button takes the browser back to the page and
*position* that it was at. (Netscape is broken and it doesn't
always go back to the right place in the page). If you follow a
link to go back to the page you will end up at the top. Pressing
the back button will place you somewhere near where you were when
you followed the link.
4) It works if you typed the URL into the browser manually.
It would be possible for WWWOFFLE to put a back link on the WillGet
page by using the Referer header so that it knows what the previous
page was (see point 4 above, this won't work then). It then gets a
lot more difficult to pass that parameter to the cancel page so that
the link can be put from there to two pages back.
It should be possible to embed some Javascript into the WillGet page
and the Cancel page that will take Netscape back 1 or two pages.
Given the list of reasons above I think that this would be a better
solution. Does anybody know any Javascript?
--
Andrew.
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Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
WWWOFFLE users page:
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.6/user.html
