[gpodder-devel] Removed wget: The new gPodder downloader
- From: pdedecker at gmail.com (Pieter De Decker)
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:08:20 +0200
Will this change allow us to download shows faster or something? Or is
it just a technology-related improvement? Does urllib allow you to
resume downloads (wget did, using "wget -c")?
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Thomas Perl schreef:
> Hello, gPodder users and developers!
>
> After long consideration phases, I've implemented a new downloader in
> the last few days, which I have now commited into our subversion
> repository after a few tests and improvements.
>
> The new downloader removes the dependency on "wget" and uses Python's
> "urllib" module, which is included in the standard distribution.
>
> Apart from the removed dependency, this also simplifies the
> download-related code in our codebase and makes progress updates more
> reliable and smooth.
>
> Just in time with the new downloading code, I've also added User-agent
> support to gPodder, which means gPodder will send a User-Agent string to
> webservers to identify itself as gPodder (with version), and also send a
> referer string (feed URL) when downloading episodes.
>
> Now, it's up to you to test and report back how it works for you. Tell
> me what you think and test it with your podcast feeds! If everything
> seems to work well, the next gPodder release should be ready in a few
> days, and will be a HUGE step forward compared to the last version.
>
>
> Thomas
>
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