537669 - Avoid several confirmation dialogs on multiple file download via multipart response

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: File Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Jose Fandos]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2b5) Gecko/20091204 Firefox/3.6b5
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FF allows to upload several files at a time, but it's missing functionality to allow several files download. Most websites that need this type of solution resort to Java, Flash or others, while some offer the multiple files as a single zip files.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jose Fandos]

See this thread for more information

http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg20316.html

Comment 2

[Jose Fandos]

An improved description would be to avoid showing multiple dialogs to confirm file download when a multiple file download is done via a multipart response with the files as parts, each part having "Content-Disposition: attachment"

Updated bug title to reflect this

Comment 3

[timeless]

You haven't provided examples of sites doing this. Please provide 5 distinct real world sites including the steps to reach their download and a description of the content they're downloading. Your description should include a characterization of the content and provider as well as the general size of the components.

Please note that networking:file relates to the file: protocol, whereas you're much more concerned with the http: protocol, so the fact that your bug stands unconfirmed should not be blamed on us. Misplacing a bug is hardly a reasonable baseline for expecting confirmation. As this bug is actually mostly a UI bug, I'm going to move it to file handling instead of networking:http.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

timeless, there's absolutely no need for 5 sites doing this or any such garbage.  The linked-to thread has all the necessary information.

I also have no idea where your second paragraph is coming from; there was no "expecting confirmation" that I see.

Confirming the enhancement request.  We probably need both back end code for this (to allow the front end to do something sane) and front-end code.  I'd be interested in knowing what sort of API front-end would want here.

Comment 5

[timeless]

http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg20339.html