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zaidka / cliget

A Firefox addon to download login-protected files from the command line
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cliget/
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Prevent Firefox from initiating download #77

Open wfaulk opened 3 years ago

wfaulk commented 3 years ago

Some web sites apparently create download-once links, and that means that if Firefox starts downloading the file, trying to use the generated curl command doesn't work because the server has detected that a download has already been attempted from elsewhere, despite the fact that the command would likely work if that hadn't happened.

Is it possible to get cliget to prevent Firefox from initiating the download at all?

rieje commented 2 years ago

Agreed, also some commands will rename the file automatically unless you delete the one automatically produced by Firefox as soon as it initiated the download, which is annoying.

I think a way to easily implement this would be to have the user copy the link and give it to cliget for it to produce the link so Firefox never attempts to download. I was looking for this behavior as soon as I tried cliget for the first time.