<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Boris Zbarsky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bzbarsky@mit.edu">bzbarsky@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 2/23/10 5:10 AM, Jose Fandos wrote:<br>
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What doesn't seem to be there, unless a java applet is used (haven't<br>
come across one using flash) is the multiple file download. Even Google<br>
Docs uses a zip file to download multiple files.<br>
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What do you mean in terms of "multiple file download"?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Download 10 files as 10 separate files, without having to</div><div><br></div><div>a) Okay the saving of each file to your drive independently</div>
<div>b) Downloading them as a zip file that then needs to be uncompressed by the end user</div><div><br></div><div>Imagine a list of files showing on a website (like google docs, or like you would have in a default ftp listing in firefox). Scripting would allow a selection of a number of these files and a download button would open a dialog on the UA to select the folder where the files will be copied to.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">You can do this right now in two ways:<br>
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1) An archive file (your zip example) with the files in it.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is b) which we have, agreed, but not what I meant by allowing multiple file download. It's allowing the download of just one file, the zip file.</div>
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2) A multipart response with the files as parts, each part having<br>
"Content-Disposition: attachment".<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>as far as I know, and I could be wrong, this would suffer from what I described in a), i.e. there would be a dialog propping up to accept each downloaded file.</div>
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You can gzip this multipart response to get the compression behavior you want.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I was suggesting the resource packages as a way to make use of compression/decompression.</div><div><br></div>
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-Boris<br>
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