Re: [dev] [surf] download patch updated

2011-09-29 Thread Nick
Quoth Troels Henriksen: > what would a "javascript download" be? I confess to not having looked in depth at all the nasty obfuscated ways javascript heavy sites 'protect' downloads. But Carlos in the original version of the patch refers to "javascript that generates POST requests". I thing the

Re: [dev] [surf] download patch updated

2011-09-29 Thread Nick
Quoth Nick: > In other surf news, I created a page on the wiki > http://surf.suckless.org/failing_sites - if anyone finds something > that doesn't work in surf, please detail it there (or on the mailing > list). While surf is very far from perfect, it's the most reasonable > way of using today's

Re: [dev] [surf] download patch updated

2011-09-29 Thread Peter John Hartman
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 02:51:10PM +0100, Nick wrote: > Quoth Troels Henriksen: > > Nick writes: > > > > > Howdy, > > > > > > I recently got around to updating the patch posted to the list in > > > July last year by Carlos, which builds downloading into surf rather > > > than relying on e.g. wg

Re: [dev] [surf] download patch updated

2011-09-28 Thread Patrick Haller
On 2011-09-28 14:51, Nick wrote: > Quoth Troels Henriksen: > > Nick writes: > > Huh? I have not had trouble using wget for this. > Can anyone else confirm / deny this? Not for those sites, however I did see enough fails to add the same to https://github.com/patrickhaller/surf-ph Patrick

Re: [dev] [surf] download patch updated

2011-09-28 Thread Troels Henriksen
Nick writes: > In other surf news, I created a page on the wiki > http://surf.suckless.org/failing_sites - if anyone finds something > that doesn't work in surf, please detail it there (or on the mailing > list). While surf is very far from perfect, it's the most reasonable > way of using toda

Re: [dev] [surf] download patch updated

2011-09-28 Thread Troels Henriksen
Nick writes: > Quoth Troels Henriksen: >> Nick writes: >> >> > Howdy, >> > >> > I recently got around to updating the patch posted to the list in >> > July last year by Carlos, which builds downloading into surf rather >> > than relying on e.g. wget. While this sounds like a bad idea, it >>

Re: [dev] [surf] download patch updated

2011-09-28 Thread Nick
Quoth Troels Henriksen: > Nick writes: > > > Howdy, > > > > I recently got around to updating the patch posted to the list in > > July last year by Carlos, which builds downloading into surf rather > > than relying on e.g. wget. While this sounds like a bad idea, it > > isn't, as it's needed f

Re: [dev] [surf] download patch updated

2011-09-28 Thread Troels Henriksen
Nick writes: > Howdy, > > I recently got around to updating the patch posted to the list in > July last year by Carlos, which builds downloading into surf rather > than relying on e.g. wget. While this sounds like a bad idea, it > isn't, as it's needed for horrible javascript sorts of download

[dev] [surf] download patch updated

2011-09-28 Thread Nick
Howdy, I recently got around to updating the patch posted to the list in July last year by Carlos, which builds downloading into surf rather than relying on e.g. wget. While this sounds like a bad idea, it isn't, as it's needed for horrible javascript sorts of downloads, such as from rapidshar

[dev] surf download patch

2010-07-09 Thread carlosjosepita
Hi, this patch implements a more general approach to http downloading that doesn't depend on external tools and can cope with resources that are not easily URI-referenced (for example, for sites like rapidshare with evil javascript that generates POST requests). The patch just uses the webkit dow