Re: Download manager and proxies

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Henry,

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Henry Baldursson wrote:

> Also, it seems one of the main Ubuntu developers uses Epiphany
> exclusively:
> https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228

Yup, that would be Sebastien, he reads this list too. :-)

> Yeah, that does looks kind of cool, but I don't think gwget has the
> makings of an application that has a shot at getting included in the
> Gnome mainline:

As a matter of fact, gwget *was* proposed for inclusion in GNOME 2.10, 
but rejected because (paraphrasing) "this kind of functionality belongs 
in epiphany". What I'm trying to do is to sort out which functionality 
does and which does *not* belong in Epiphany core.

Do you believe all the advanced gwget functionality should be delivered 
with GNOME mainline?

> Not to piss in anyone's pool, but a download manager as a frontend for
> a command-line downloader doesn't get my juices flowing. :-)
> It has no viable option for extending the content it can handle, and
> would have to rely on wget making handlers for certain URI's like
> torrents and such, and I don't see that happening.

Well, from my POV, as long as it doesn't have negative security 
implications or maintainability problems, I don't really care how it's 
implemented.

As for torrents, see: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116166

> Thanks for the kind welcome, Reinout, and hello to all on the list :-)

:-)

regards,

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