92696 - Allow file dowloads to be externalized (eg. to wget)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Networking, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

(I've marked this All/All, but that probably excludes Mac Classic.)

Mozilla crashes from time to time. Sadly, that problem isn't going away soon. It
isn't nice if file downloads go down with the browser. That's why externalizing
downloads to other processes would be useful.

When I initiate a larger download, I copy the URL from Mozilla and then fetch
the file with wget. It would be nice to have an option that would make Mozilla
do this for me.

Comment 1

[benc]

Are the file download problems described in other bugs?

Oddly, this is similar to what I asked for in bug 92719, except you are
confining your application of the feature to just file downloads.

Comment 2

[John Taylor]

Henri - Good idea, but I don't see this happening soon. If you want, play around
the TestPageLoad, which is basically a wget using Necko (no UI). It is available
in the necko test directory:

http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/netwerk/test/TestPageLoad.cpp

-> dougt, for now.

Comment 3

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

moving neeti's futured bugs for triaging.

Comment 4

[imran.geriskovan]

Please visit bug# 176864. 
Summary: "Don't re-invent the wheel. Use wget"

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

use http://www.flashgot.net/...