Request to add an 'Edit URL' feature to FDM batch downloads dialog box
The characters in URLS of foreign sites (notably Russian) are mis-interpreted by browsers and FDM, rendering files inaccesible without tedious one-by-one editing of the URL in the FDM "Download properties" dialog box for each file.
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Simple example of URL mutilation:
Original text of URL:
ftp://tigr.telenet.ru/Ìóçûêà/mp3/Celtic Guitar/01 Track 1.wma
Result in FDM 'Add download' dialog box:
ftp://tigr.telenet.ru/Ìóçûêà /mp3/Celtic Guitar/01 Track 1.wma
(which is the page title shown in FF, by the way)
In this case, the string "Ìóçûêà /" needs to be replaced with "Ìóçûêà/" for the file to be found on the server.
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Simple solution:
In the 'Add list of downloads' window, add a button to "Edit URL".
When that button is clicked, a window would open with 3 text boxes.
The top text box would contain a copy of the URL of the first file in the list.
The second text box is where the user would paste the part of the URL to be replaced ('string A').
The third text box is where the user would paste 'string B', the replacement for the text in the second box.
When the "OK" button in that window is clicked, FDM would then replace 'string A' with 'string B' in the URLs of all downloads in that list.
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Thanks in advance for granting this request.
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