Jeremy wrote:
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 04:16:13AM +0000, corvid wrote:
Benjamin wrote:
The biggest changes are the preferences dialog and the libcurl-based downloader, which removes Dillo's dependency on wget and allows it to function as a completely self-contained executable. (By default it's disabled, and Dillo continues to use the old downloads DPI.)
Naturally one begins to wonder about having such features in the real dillo :)
I like the libcurl-based downloader. Curl seems to be pretty mature and stable these days.
If we had our own downloader, 1) Downloads would be rejected less often when servers wouldn't see Wget in the user agent string anymore. 2) Maybe the matter of proxies would be a bit less tangled. I wonder whether libcurl makes it simple to retry and continue partial downloads. (I wish dillo itself had some ability to do that, but I don't want to battle with CCC.)