New idea of WFX plugin : HTTP browser

fabiochelly · Post by *fabiochelly » 2003-02-18, 07:44 UTC

It would be great to have an HTTP browser like the browser included in GetRight or in FlashGet : this browser can show links to webpages as folders and links to other files as standard files.
When you double click on a file, the download begins and when you double click on a folder, you follow the link and enter the new page.

Post by *Hacker » 2003-02-18, 12:34 UTC

This would be interesting, but wouldn't you need to also view the webpages?

TIA
Roman

fabiochelly · Post by *fabiochelly » 2003-02-18, 13:08 UTC

I have IE for that.
What I would like to have is a very fast made to download files.

Post by *Hacker » 2003-02-18, 13:21 UTC

I rather meant that the pages could be shown as files, Enter would open them as if they were a dir and F3 would open up lister and show the page.
What do you think?

TIA
Roman

fabiochelly · Post by *fabiochelly » 2003-02-18, 13:23 UTC

Yes it would be perfect like this.
And if the download can be resume, no need to other download software as flashget or getright.

bago · Post by *bago » 2003-02-18, 14:07 UTC

You should be able to specify the depth of recursive copy and filters of files to copy locally so that doing mirrors would be simple.

HTTrack is a cool mirroring tool. And I think it's opensource if something is needed for the plugin.

fabiochelly · Post by *fabiochelly » 2003-02-18, 14:11 UTC

You should be able to specify the depth of recursive copy and filters

What do you mean exactly ?

bago · Post by *bago » 2003-02-18, 14:27 UTC

fabiochelly wrote:
You should be able to specify the depth of recursive copy and filters
What do you mean exactly ?

Giving a "structure" like you described, so that each link is a folder with subfolders for other links you would have an "infinite" structure.

First of all I don't know if there is a maximum length for the path handled by a plugin.

Anyway recursive copy would not work because of this infinite structure. You should be able to "put a limit" to this structure... a depth limit

fabiochelly · Post by *fabiochelly » 2003-02-18, 14:36 UTC

I thought that the plugin work as a standard browser.
It parses the current page (depth = 1) and shows links.
And when you click on a link, it download and shows the new page

bago · Post by *bago » 2003-02-18, 14:53 UTC

fabiochelly wrote:I thought that the plugin work as a standard browser.
It parses the current page (depth = 1) and shows links.
And when you click on a link, it download and shows the new page

What should happen when I use F5 on a folder/link ?

fabiochelly · Post by *fabiochelly » 2003-02-18, 14:55 UTC

it downloads the file to the other panel

bago · Post by *bago » 2003-02-18, 15:06 UTC

fabiochelly wrote:it downloads the file to the other panel

It is a link and you sad that a link is a folder: what does it copy to the other panel? the whole directory/link with its html, images, and recursively its following links?

Or you mean that the plugin would have "sitename:port" as the first level of the structure and then only real folder are represented as folders and html are files?

How do you manage links in this case?

fabiochelly · Post by *fabiochelly » 2003-02-18, 15:17 UTC

what does it copy to the other panel? the whole directory/link with its html, images, and recursively its following links?

In case of a link, it downloads the target html page

bago · Post by *bago » 2003-02-18, 15:39 UTC

fabiochelly wrote: In case of a link, it downloads the target html page

Hmm... then a link is not a folder but a simple file?

(or it only seem a file if you copy it and is a folder if you press enter on it?

I'm sorry for all these questions, but it seems not simple to define how it should work.

fabiochelly · Post by *fabiochelly » 2003-02-18, 15:52 UTC

I think that it should be a single file for the beginning.
After that, it would be useful to have the ability to download pages and files with a defined depth.