On Ma, 18 ian 22, 11:35:04, The Wanderer wrote:
>
> Looking at that example, I note that it starts with the variable name
> "currentDirHandle". I think it's intended, although not explicitly
> stated, that the directory path specified in that function call is
> *relative*; that would let the API b
On 2022-01-18, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
>
> The problem is that a user would normally only expect a browser to
> save a file to the file-system in two cases:
>
> (a) when the user has explcicitly chosen to download something, and
>then chooses where to put it
>
> (b) when the browser is cacheing
On 2022-01-18 11:23:14 -0500, songbird wrote:
> Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> > songbird wrote:
> ...
> >> but what i do is set where files are saved in a
> >> specific directory and leave it at that
> >
> > That works fine while you can be sure that a browser is only
> > saving downloaded files. What a
On Tue, 18 Jan 2022, at 16:35, The Wanderer wrote:
> So this could potentially be dangerous if the user chooses a directory
> location that's high enough in the directory tree to have important
> files already underneath it, but not if the user chooses e.g. a
> dedicated Downloads directory.
I'd
On Tue 18 Jan 2022 at 14:46:48 (+), Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2022, at 04:51, songbird wrote:
> > Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> >> On Mon, 17 Jan 2022, at 05:19, songbird wrote:
> >>
> >>> you are right, but i just wanted to say that for some sites
> >>> the behavior is to generate a uni
Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> songbird wrote:
...
>> but what i do is set where files are saved in a
>> specific directory and leave it at that
>
> That works fine while you can be sure that a browser is only
> saving downloaded files. What about when if can do anything
> it likes to any file/folder?
On 2022-01-17 at 15:55, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2022, at 05:19, songbird wrote:
>
>> you are right, but i just wanted to say that for some sites the
>> behavior is to generate a unique file name if they find one that
>> already exists with the same name and for other sites it is not
On Tue, 18 Jan 2022, at 04:51, songbird wrote:
> Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
>> On Mon, 17 Jan 2022, at 05:19, songbird wrote:
>>
>>> you are right, but i just wanted to say that for some sites
>>> the behavior is to generate a unique file name if they find
>>> one that already exists with the same name
Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2022, at 05:19, songbird wrote:
>
>> you are right, but i just wanted to say that for some sites
>> the behavior is to generate a unique file name if they find
>> one that already exists with the same name and for other sites
>> it is not. i think this is de
On Mon, 17 Jan 2022, at 05:19, songbird wrote:
> you are right, but i just wanted to say that for some sites
> the behavior is to generate a unique file name if they find
> one that already exists with the same name and for other sites
> it is not. i think this is dependent upon the website des
Kamil Jońca wrote:
> songbird writes:
>
>> Kamil Jońca wrote:
>>>
>>> Recently I recognized strange behaviour during pdf download with
>>> firefox.
>>> 1. When I enter target name with colon - this colon is replaced with
>>> space.
>>
>> no idea because i usually replace any strange characters
Greg Wooledge writes:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 05:47:13PM +0100, Kamil Jońca wrote:
>> Recently I recognized strange behaviour during pdf download with
>> firefox.
>> 1. When I enter target name with colon - this colon is replaced with
>> space.
>
> Probably because colons are not allowed in fil
On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 05:47:13PM +0100, Kamil Jońca wrote:
> Recently I recognized strange behaviour during pdf download with
> firefox.
> 1. When I enter target name with colon - this colon is replaced with
> space.
Probably because colons are not allowed in filenames on Microsoft
platforms. I
songbird writes:
> Kamil Jońca wrote:
>>
>> Recently I recognized strange behaviour during pdf download with
>> firefox.
>> 1. When I enter target name with colon - this colon is replaced with
>> space.
>
> no idea because i usually replace any strange characters
> in file names with underline
Kamil Jońca wrote:
>
> Recently I recognized strange behaviour during pdf download with
> firefox.
> 1. When I enter target name with colon - this colon is replaced with
> space.
no idea because i usually replace any strange characters
in file names with underlines before saving them to disk.
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