[feature request] download file by BYPASSING Flash player

[klichi]

Hello Giorgio

I would like to ask for a new feature (or maybe it's already there but I missed it).

Let me explain the context first:
the following page http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusiq ... =425001379 for instance has a Flash player that plays a MP3 resource. Problem is, when you listen to it from France, the MP3 resource's URL has 2 limitations that prevent FlashGot to download the MP3 file: the URL has a timestamp in it and can be used only once (this is checked on server side)... Only once, that means by the Flash player, of course. And if you catch the URL before the player uses it, then you run into a timeout due to the timestamp. Apparently, this is not the case when using it from another country (I mean, I can do download the file from my computer at work, which is using a proxy located in the US).

So, my request is to have a way in FlashGot to tell Flashgot to intercept the media URL before the embedded Flash Player plays it, instead of the Flash Player actually, and download the resource immediately and automatically, to avoid the timeout and have a single use of the resource's URL. Actually, Flashgot should be told before the page is displayed. I was thinking about a user-defined regex pattern that would trigger this behaviour when the URL matches the pattern.

What do you think?

Thanks
Olivier

PS: actually, I just have found another post that is related to my request (http://forums.informaction.com/viewtopi ... =11&t=5846), but here it is worse as there is a almost-immediate timeout in addition to the one-time usage, due to an encrypted timestamp in the URL.. So the workaround in that post does not work for me. But the feature I'm requesting could solve that other post's issue as well

[Giorgio Maone]

If you set "Built in" as your download manager and let the stream run till its end, it will be immediately "downloaded" from the cache as soon as the stream is done or you close the page.

[klichi]

If you set "Built in" as your download manager and let the stream run till its end, it will be immediately "downloaded" from the cache as soon as the stream is done or you close the page.

Thanks Giorgio. But I actually had tried that already, and the file cannot be downloaded, still ("source file cannot be read" or similar). Even if I used BetterCache to force the file to be cached...I checked with the "Tamper Data" add-on, and I could see that Flashgot was trying to use the cache... but for any reason, without success.