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Re: netscape ftp vs http



On Saturday 20 January 2001 06:24, Svante Signell wrote:
> What am I doing wrong trying to download files from
> eg. http/:www.fileplanet.com or http://www,3ddownloads.com using
> Netscape (4.76)?
>
> You don't get the possibility to <shift><click> on the file, it
> just starts downloading to the Netscape buffer!! Not as expected.
> I'm moving to mozilla ASAP, but meanwhile, what to do?? Any
> settings to change? Maybe this is IE behavior copied to NS, but you
> should get a question, whether to download or to view. Is this
> unreasonable?

I think you'd be better off using a dedicated web file downloader 
like wget or pavuk, especially if you have lots of files to download.



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