Version: 0.8.3 (using KDE KDE 3.1.2) Installed from: Compiled From Sources OS: Linux There are some stupid sites in the Net that require client to send referer header when downloading some files, or they just return 404 or 403. Konqueror gives referer header automatically when downloading from a web page. But if you close kget and restart it with some files in the queue, referer page will not be send any more so if site requires it, download will fail. So, it would be nice if kget saved the referer URI and sended it when requesting files.
Good idea. I will put this on the KGet2 TODO list.
It could be useful to have referer information also in the details of the download, so kget could help us to answer that very old question: "where did I got that file?" :-)
And adding a -referer option in command-line so we can use kget with other browsers (Opera can tell the download manager the referer and the link for example, and the flashgot extension for firefox too) will also be appreciated. (Maybe an option to load a cookie from a file too by the way)
I was wondering why kget failed downloading some links, until I found out that when I wanted it in wget to work, I had to specify --referer=
I just encountered the issue trying to use with Firefox via Flashgot... cURL and wGET support this... would be great if this functionality could be placed into KGET.