[vox-tech] Downloading PDF

harke rharke at earthlink.net
Wed Jan 16 17:37:41 PST 2008


On Wednesday 16 January 2008 01:24, Shwaine wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, harke wrote:
> > I want to download some PDF files but I would prefer
> > that no /tmp file is created. I want to be able to
> > send them directly into a file system of my choosing
> > (An encrypted file system, actually)
> > A file in /tmp seems like a security hole to me.
>
> So don't use the web browser to get the files. There's always command-line
> tools like wget or curl to save a URL straight to the encrypted drive.
> _______________________________________________

A useful suggestion. But I like being able to do this from
the browser. I don't know the directory structure on the web site
and would probably need to use the browser to get that info as well
as the actual file names.

Richard


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