Re: LYNX-DEV Forked image DL?

[Klaus Weide]

On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Al Gilman wrote:

> to follow up on what Klaus Weide said:
> 
> > On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> > 
> > > On 1997-11-16T12:57:00,
> > >    Al Gilman <address@hidden> said:
> > > 
> > > > You might want to look in the code to see if one could use Wget
> > > > as an external downloader as opposed to forking another Lynx.
> > > 
> > > I keep running into a problem with the external downloader (which I make
> > > extensive use of):
> > 
> > What do you (both of you) mean with "external downloader"?
> > 
> >  - The development code's EXTERNAL / USE_EXTERNAL (see devel lynx.cfg), or
> >  - something else?
> 
> There are both similarities and differences.
> 
> Same:
> 
>       use another program
> 
>       download runs in another thread or process
> 
> Different:
> 
>       separate-process download invoked by same command (when 
>       background downloading enabled) as by-lynx download (when disabled).
> 
>       multiple external programs configured into Lynx independently,
>       as with the editor today.
> 
> The last time I had an idea what EXTERNAL does it gave you a
> gateway to one program outside Lynx.  If you want to have Pine
> and Wget both accessed this way, you have to create your own
> selector menu and make the selector menu script be the EXTERNAL
> routine known to Lynx.  This may be erroneous, I am flying by
> memory, here.
> 
> It would be yet better if analogous to the mime.types database
> which tells you what external program to use to display objects
> by their MIME type, it were possible to indicate which external
> helpers should be launched to get resources under the "download"
> user command.  This would probably be indexed by URL scheme, not
> MIME type.

EXTERNAL lets you configure multiple programs or scripts to invoked,
tehy are selected by (initial) substring match.

> People with lots of process resources would want to configure
> background downloads in this way, while sites which have to guard
> the process resources consumed by any one user would disable it.

That is already possible.

   Klaus
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