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Date:      Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:38:17 +0100
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fetch extension - use local filename from content-dispositionheader (new diff)
Message-ID:  <86bqyy4ehy.fsf@xps.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20051230125227.A33408@cons.org> (Martin Cracauer's message of "Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:52:27 -0500")
References:  <20051229221459.A17102@cons.org> <030d01c60cf1$db80a290$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20051230035724.GA52167@nagual.pp.ru> <20051230125227.A33408@cons.org>

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Martin Cracauer <cracauer@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"?

> 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.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no




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