Download handling

[Docbroke]

How to view / cancel / pause ongoing download without closing vimb ?

[fanglingsu]

@Docbroke There is no download manager built into vimb. The only indicator might be the download progress bar at the right of the statusbar. I'm not as interested in putting it into vimb. I think it would be a greater deal to readd the external download feature to allow the user to configure some tool to manage the downloads.

[Docbroke]

Thank for the reply. Adding external download manager would be great.
I am currently using wget in new terminal window through my external-handler script (using x-hint-command). Is it possible to use handler-add to load all links that starts download, with wget or something like that? There is already an example for starting ftp downloads using wget, if the same can be done for other download links?

[fanglingsu]

@Docbroke I think, the handler-add would not work for downloads. Because we can't decide if a URI will start a download or can be shown direct without doing the request and allow webkit to decide if the content can be shown direct ord have to be downloaded.

[fanglingsu]

I changed my opinion because of #470. It's not possible to use external downloaders because there is no way to let them participate on the same session. The workaround with thetext cookie file does also not work properly, because this will never contain the session cookies (those live only in webkits memory). So I think having some simple download management in vimb would be a nice feature for many users.

[jun7]

@fanglingsu Hi. Webkit2gkt v2.20 adds APIs to manage cookies. So now it is may possible to use the downloaders. It returns cookies even in the ephemeral mode.
https://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkit2gtk/stable/api-index-2-20.html

I'm happy if below link helps you. Sorry for the dirty commit but see WEBKIT_CHECK_VERSION's sections.
jun7/wyeb@f127cff

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