291620 - Request option to generate "Save Page As" filename from URL

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 173982

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[John Hainsworth]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0

I would like a button added to the Firefox "Save As" dialog box that would
replace the contents of the "Name:" field with a filename generated from the
URL, according to the following rules:
- change the "://" after the protocol to a single slash
- reverse the dot-separated fields of the hostname and replace them with slashes
- make the protocol name a directory level after the hostname
- if a non-default port number is used, append it to the protocol name
- replace all weird characters with their escaped ("%##") equivalents
- make all the slashes backslashes on MicroSoft systems :-)

Examples:
1. Hitting the "generate URL from file" button while viewing
   http://www.cs.wichita.edu/~hains/prof/resume.html
would replace the name in the "File:" field with
   edu/wichita/cs/www/http/%7Ehains/prof/resume.html
2. Hitting the "generate URL from file" button while viewing
   http://www.cs.wichita.edu:888/~hains/prof/resume:abc.html
would replace the name in the "File:" field with
   edu/wichita/cs/www/http888/%7Ehains/prof/resume%3Aabc.html

A demangler to retrieve the original page from a filename would be useful as
well, but considerably less important.

Another option would be to escape any "_" characters in the URL and then replace
the "/"s in the generated filenames with "_"s.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to/duplicate of Core bug 173982?

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 173982 ***