Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote on Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 07:38:17PM +0100: > Martin Cracauer <cracauer_at_cons.org> writes: > > When discussing, keep in mind that the user has to explicity give the > > -O option (there is no environment variable to permanently turn this > > on) and that the implications of the -O options are very clear and > > simple. And that the main use of this is for folks who have to go > > through a gazillion of Bugzilla attachments all name > > "customer-errlog.20051220" etc, and there is no other way to download > > them in a name-preserving manner than interactively opening them in > > Mozilla and saving them. > > Are you seriously saying that you find it easier to copy the URL to > the clipboard and paste it into a terminal window than to just > right-click the link and select "Save Link As"? If you have dozens of them in a page, yepp. If you have any kind of robot, even just a grep from one HTML page, there is nothing else you can do. > > Before we randomize the list even more I would say I'd like to hear > > from the security officer if there is concern left. > > It still hasn't occurred to you to ask the fetch maintainer, has it? > He happens to think it's a terrible hack which breaks the libfetch API > and leaks memory to boot. It didn't leak and in any case the new patch uses a static buffer. Maintainer says "notification requested". If this thread isn't notification I don't know what. Please have a look at the new diff which I agree is more in the spirit of the existing interface. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer_at_cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/Received on Fri Dec 30 2005 - 17:43:48 UTC
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