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Date:      Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:47:23 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Thomas Gellekum <Thomas.Gellekum@gmx.de>, Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: fetch extension - use local filename from content-dispositionheader (new diff)
Message-ID:  <200601031447.26215.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051231093050.GB73324@nagual.pp.ru>
References:  <20051229221459.A17102@cons.org> <0r1wzteiyc.fsf@hanbruch.tg.intern> <20051231093050.GB73324@nagual.pp.ru>

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On Saturday 31 December 2005 04:30 am, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 10:04:11AM +0100, Thomas Gellekum wrote:
> > Andrey Chernov <ache@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> > > There is easy way to make most security hackarounds unneeded in the way
> > > like every browser does: confirm final file name interactively. I.e.
> > > fetch can do something like this:
> > >
> > > Save as filename.exe (Y/N)?
> >
> > And for use in scripts you'd like to add a -y switch to say "yes, I
> > <beep> mean it"?
>
> Personally I prefer to see this feature not for scripts at all, but this
> is the next story and can be discussed afterwards.

It is only intended for scripts.  You can already use Mozilla and have it do 
this feature for non-scripted behavior.

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