[feature request] Add option for remote downloaders

[Faw]

I was wondering if it was possible to add the option to add a download to a remote downloader.

For example:

• Free Download Manager: you can set it as a server (just found out)
• MLDonkey: you can add a download to it by calling the url "http://username:password@server:port/submit?q=dllink+url"
• Aria2: It has a XML-RPC and JSON interface. You can add a download with a POST to "http://username:password@server:port/jsonrpc" with the JSON request as the data.

So what I was thinking is adding a REMOTE option (just like CUSTOM) with the following fields: host,user,password,path, method (GET/POST), query (query string for GET, post data for POST).
Once you have that info you can create the reque4st and send it to the downloader.

Example for MLDonkey

• host: myserver:8080
• user: admin
• password: admin_password
• path: /submit
• method: GET
• data: q=dllink+[URL]

URL: http://admin:admin_password@myserver:80 ... ?q=dllink+[URL]

Example for Aria2C

• host: myserver:8080
• user: admin
• password: admin_password
• path: /jsonrpc
• method: POST
• data: {'jsonrpc':'2.0', 'id':'qwer', 'method':'aria2.addUri','params':[[ [URL] ]]}

URL: http://admin:admin_password@myserver:8080/jsonrpc
POST_DATA: {'jsonrpc':'2.0', 'id':'qwer', 'method':'aria2.addUri','params':[[ [URL] ]]}

Example for Free Download Manager

• host: myserver:8080
• user:
• password:
• path: /adddownload.req
• method: GET
• data:URL=[URL]

URL: http://myserver:8080/adddownload.req?URL=[URL]

Any comments?

[Faw]

So no comment about this? How about adding aria2 remote support?

[GµårÐïåñ]

You are not being ignored, I assure you. The problem is that Giorgio has his plate really full with things that are not place to discuss here. But if you give him some time to review it when he is not being pulled into so many different directions, I am sure he will comment or perhaps even implement. Please be patient and if you don't get a reply on this within the next two weeks, then let us know again with a bump and I will chase it down. ok?

[lemarec56]

Hello

In the same idea

Option for NAS (QNAP, ...)

[Faw]

So nothing yet?

[Giorgio Maone]

It's actually a very good idea.
I'm putting it in my TODO list, but I'm likely to implement it in a simpler way, e.g. by just letting user to specify an URL template which accepts the usual placeholders ([URL], [REFERER] and so on) but urlencodes them, rather than escaping them for the command line.

[sabret00the]

I had a similar idea. But this too would be awesome. I hope it comes to fruition.

[Faw]

It's actually a very good idea.
I'm putting it in my TODO list, but I'm likely to implement it in a simpler way, e.g. by just letting user to specify an URL template which accepts the usual placeholders ([URL], [REFERER] and so on) but urlencodes them, rather than escaping them for the command line.

Well the reason I split it in sections (host,user,password pathm method,data) is because not all downloaders use GET (Aria2C uses POST), so maybe it could be just 2 fields: URL,POST_DATA (using placeholders on both), if POST_DATA is empty, just use GET.