[webkit-help] How to handle file downloading in NPAPI plugin

Fri Dec 30 17:57:47 PST 2011

On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 6:13 AM, John Yani <vanuan at gmail.com> wrote:

>> I agree with you that NPAPI plugin is a bad option, but what I want to
>> do is a function demo, not for real
>> product. So, if NPAPI could achieve this target, I will give it a try.
>> But I did not understand what you said "you'll need to return all the
>> MIME types you could think of from NP_GetMimeDescription".
>> I only want to download jar files, only jar files would appear in the
>> refresh links. I guess I only need to return MIME Type of jar files.
>> Am I wrong about it?
>
> So, you want only jar files to be downloaded? I still can't figure out
> use case here.
> User loads html page with redirect to jar file. Plugin gets loaded and
> shows download progress. Plugin downloads jar file and shows
> "Completed" message. What's next? Should previous page with redirect
> to jar file be loaded again?

Maybe I forgot mentioning something. I explain more in below.

> User loads html page with redirect to jar file.
Yes.

> Plugin gets loaded and
> shows download progress. Plugin downloads jar file and shows
> "Completed" message.
No, partially. I hope the plugin takes over totally the refresh of jar
file link. And the web page
still stay at the page with the redirect link to jar file. In the
<body> part of html page, it will show
that the downloading has started in background.

> Should previous page with redirect to jar file be loaded again?
So, this should not be a problem. Previous page is not the html page
with a refresh link to a jar file.