200267 - easy way to start a download from a known URL or list of URLs

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Martin Bohm]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

When the Download Manager starts a download, most times it works fine. But I
miss a easy way to start a download from a known URL or from a list of URLs
(ASCII-file) like the program "wget" can do it.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Martin Bohm]

I think, Bug 142798 is related.

Comment 2

[Pham]

Dupe of 191094?

Comment 3

[Martin Bohm]

It's more than the issue of Bug 191094.
My idea is to add the ability to download files from different URL-sources. Such
URL-sources may be for instance:
1. Direct input from the user
2. Click on a link in current browser page 
3. A arbitrarily HTML-page itself. (local file or internet. Download all links
at this page)
4. Recursive download (spider) of a HTML-page. (usefull for offline reading)
5. A URL from clipboard
6. A list of URLs from a (text-) file

I think, this list may expanded, but at first the Dowload Manager has to get a
open interface for URL-sources in any way.

Comment 4

[Ian Neal]

Adding dependency

Comment 5

[Joe M]

related to bug 67178?

Comment 6

[Hermann Schwab]

*** Bug 265488 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Hermann Schwab]

*** Bug 245344 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[abraendle]

(In reply to comment #7)
> *** Bug 245344 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

this Bug has 3 other ideas, that are not in the list above (comment #3)

Comment 9

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Why not use wget?

Having a web browser handle downloads as well as surfing always stroke me as odd. There are download managers for that. I mean, the browser could execute some command to notify the download manager of a new URL to be downloaded, sure. But other than that, I even find the existing functionality extraneous...

Comment 10

[abraendle]

@comment #3:

1.+5. this would be same as Bug 191094, in most cases simply enter the url into address bar

These are not really necessary IMHO / or already possible:

2. = Right click, Save Link As ... (already possible)
3.+4. use httrack (or similar) for this!
6. use a download manager!


What i would like instead is:

* mark some text on the webpage and DO something with all marked links,
for example: download the link targets (this is Bug 245344 (closed))

Comment 11

[Robert Kaiser]

The SeaMonkey team has no intention of doing this in main UI, but feel free to develop and add-on for SeaMonkey 2 that does this!