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#1
Quick one - is there a download manager in the works for Maemo 5?
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as supposed to the one that works in microb? or one with more functionality? or different use?
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Depending on your needs GNU wget might be just what you want.
 

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thp: yeah wget but with an interface on the top
noobm: as you say - like the microb one but with more functionality is that i was thinking.

something like the 'DownloadThemAll' plug in for firefox but with a cut down feature set.

I wasn't sure if there was one in devel or if anyone was working on one.
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I like the idea of a timed wget.

My ISP allows me uncapped downloads between 2am to 7am.

On my desktop I use the "at" command to schedule a bash script(calls wget with parameters) to download stuff in the wee hours of the morning.

Something like this would be handy for n900.
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Additionaly it should only download through certain connections for example at home on my WIFI, but not at work.

A GUI interface using wget, cron and additional "verification" script should do the trick.
 
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Even a python script can do something like this.

Add a list of links to download via python "frontend".
The list is written to a text file.
You specify time and date.
script will then schedule it via cron.
downloads via wget (can even use cookies for auto-login for sites e.g. Rapidshare.com)
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Are there any existing open-source download managers that could be ported, I wonder?
 
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aria2c and also build a nice xml-rpc interface to it.

http://aria2.sourceforge.net/
 
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Is there some kind of an internet download manager? I have some problems with my pc and i have to download some files from rapidshare. I can't use built-in manager cuz that file has 50 parts of 100 mb.
 
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