Download a local copy of an article from the preprint server arXiv and from journals linked by the DOI system.
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Changelog:
2009-03-23 - V0.1 - Initial release.
2009-03-24 - V0.2 - Respond to cancelation during download, show progress of individual file downloads, added backport of CookieManager, CookieStore, CookiePolicy and InMemoryCookieStore for compatibility with systems that only have JDK 1.5.
2009-03-25 - V0.3 - Implemented a lightweight mechanism for handling cookies compatible with JDK 1.5, fixed a bug when renaming files on Windows machines.
2009-03-26 - V0.4 - Added support for url field, fixed bug when redirection uses relative paths, support for pdf links that span over multiple lines, support for direct links to pdf files.
2009-03-26 - V0.5 - Better heuristics for finding pdf links on a page. Several minor enhancements.
2009-03-29 - V0.6 - Better robustness against incorrectly formed HTML and DOI links, minor changes in UI.
2009-04-01 - V0.7 - Bug fix for <a ...> tag without href, added warning before an external file is overwritten, added support for database-specific file directories, use main file directory by default.
2009-04-05 - V0.8 - Implemented "update fields" button to check for updates on SPIRES. Allows for automatic download of journal pdf if a new DOI/URL link is found.
2009-04-25 - V0.9 - Strip DOI: prefix in doi field if present.
2009-06-01 - V1.0 - Implemented default choice for URL/DOI selection, added HTTPS support, implemented authentication system for HTTP-Auth and login forms, implemented policy system, implemented new cookie management system, major redesign of code layout.
2009-06-08 - V1.1 - Bug fix in Cookie.appliesTo, allow multiple redirects of pdf links, use default policies as default choice in policy dialogs if available, changed package to localcopy, bug fix in HtmlPage.getPDFLinks handling malformed URLs (bug introduced in V1.0).
2009-06-15 - V1.2 - Bug fix in Download.downloadFile.
2009-07-10 - V1.3 - New feature: Select fields you want to update.
2009-09-21 - V1.4 - Autogenerate BibTeX key before downloading if key is empty. Select alternative filename if file existed.
2009-09-30 - V1.5 - Check if filename is supported by filesystem. If not offer to select new filename without new download. Automatically replace ':' with '_' in filename if on a windows platform. In future releases there may be a more sophisticated approach.
2010-01-27 - V1.6 - New policy type: Text in caption of pdf link with caption. Updated policy for sciencedirect.
2010-02-17 - V1.7 - Support for single ' in links.
2010-03-13 - V1.8 - New feature: Delete local copies from the filesystem.
2010-03-15 - V1.9 - Contribution by Zhi-Wei Huang: Update fields from SPIRES extended: use "doi" when "eprint" is not available for mapping, also update "eprint" field.
2010-04-19 - V2.0 - Bug fix in HtmlPage.java: Convert & to & in links.
2010-08-09 - V2.1 - Implement proper timeout in http-connections. User-defined filename templates implemented.
2010-09-02 - V2.2 - Add new policies for link-matching: title and class of link (). Implement new policy for sciencedirect.
2011-08-14 - V2.3 - Add changes by Julien Rioux (Use also DOI in update from SPIRES, handle arXiv: prefix in eprint). Improved Julien's code to download all versions from arXiv. Implement John Kehayias's proposal to use same filename restrictions on all OS to allow for easier sharing of files. Add Nicholas Jackson's patch to recognize application/xhtml.
2011-09-19 - V2.4 - Bug fix in DownloadHttpSession.java: getHeaderFieldKey can be null
2011-09-23 - V2.5 - Use INSPIRE plugin for CommandUpdate if the plugin is available.
2012-01-24 - V2.6 - Fixes compatibility problem with JabRef 2.8b.