GetRight and FlashGot Selection

[Guest]

I am using GetRight with FlashGot - recently (probably because of some update) it stopped working properly with "FlashGot Selection" - only the first selected link is passed to GetRight regardless of how many I select.

I checked the temporary files and the log. The log is:

*** Log start at Wed, 20 May 2009 05:10:35 GMT
Adding metalink info
Sorting again 5 links
Preprocessing done in ms37
Starting dispatch
Converting 1330 long job to charset ISO-8859-1
Writing 1330 bytes...
Converting 72 long job to charset UTF-8
Writing 72 bytes...
Running C:\Users\Andre Tissot\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\5itgnfl1.default\FlashGot.exe C:\Windows\TEMP\flashgot.5itgnfl1.default\flashgot.fgt -- async
Dispatch done in ms1315
Total processing time: ms1354

And the files (in temporary folder) are (I changed personal details):
File flashgot.fgt.done:
0;GetRight;1;;
C:\Windows\TEMP\flashgot.5itgnfl1.default\flashgot.grx
/Q

File flashgot.grx:
[Edit: removed to protect personal details]

What worries me is that Converting 1330 long job to charset ISO-8859-1
Writing 1330 bytes...
seels all right - that's the length of the flashgot.grx file

But Converting 72 long job to charset UTF-8
Writing 72 bytes... - is that correct? Why would it convert anything to UTF-8?

[arachnologist]

Sorry forgot to login before posting the previous message.
I did some further research - looks like the problem is in FlashGot rather than in GetRight. I ticked the setting that FlashGot should use togetright.exe whenever possible. I checked the functioning of togetright by passing correct parameters to it in a batch file. So the problem is that FlashGot incorrectly parses flashgot.grx file before passing it to togetright.exe. Any developers over there?

[Giorgio Maone]

Developer here.
Nothing has changed in FlashGot's GetRight support module recently. It's more likely that something changed on GetRight side, I'll check.
BTW, which GetRight version are you using?

Regarding 72 vs 1330 bytes, the former is the flashgot.fgt file, meant to be parsed by FlashGot.exe who knows about UTF-8, while the latter the flashgot.grx file, meant to be parsed my GetRight (grx is the GetRight batch format).

So the problem is that FlashGot incorrectly parses flashgot.grx file before passing it to togetright.exe.

FlashGot doesn't parse the grx, it produces it. GetRight parses (or should parse) it...

[arachnologist]

Hi Giorgio, thank you for prompt answering

It's more likely that something changed on GetRight side, I'll check.
BTW, which GetRight version are you using?

The latest, 6.3e - I even uninstalled what I had, deleted all GetRight keys from registry and deleted all directories. Then installed GetRight fresh.

FlashGot doesn't parse the grx, it produces it. GetRight parses (or should parse) it...

Ok, good to know that, thank you. I found what actually prevents GetRight from importing your flashgot.grx file. If I remove (from flashgot.grx) every line starting with File: , i.e. all lines like File: E:\Downloads\FGZ.part2.rar.html, then GetRight imports it with no problem whatsoever. You might say it is GetRight problem, but why does Getright need that information? And why FlashGot asks me for the destination directory every time I do Flashgot Selection? The destination directory/directories are defined in GetRight itself, so what it then need of asking for it every time - it is confusing - what overrides what...
Another confusing FlashGot setting is "Use togetright.exe whenever it is possible" Apparently ticking this box does not affect anything - FlashGot never uses ToGetRight.exe, which is a pity as it might be useful.

Is there any chance you could remove the File: X:\Dir\blabla lines from the grx file? And thanks for your prompt answer again
Cheers fro Australia

[Giorgio Maone]

That's weird: I cannot reproduce your issue with GetRight 6.3e with the default FlashGot options (togetright.exe flagged, the other two not).
Is it consistently reproducible on other pages which I can open (http://www.votvamhui.com/nahui.html is broken for me)?

[arachnologist]

Thank you Giorgio for looking into my matter.

Is it consistently reproducible on other pages which I can open (http://www.votvamhui.com/nahui.html is broken for me)?

http://www.votvamhui.com/nahui.html is not an address to download -it is a a Referer address - so it can be anything.
I put a real flashgot.grx file in this directory [EDIT: removed to protect personal details] for you to download. Would appreciate if you can check it.
Thanks again

[Giorgio Maone]

I'm checking your file. You should better remove it from your server now, to protect the details in it.

[arachnologist]

I'm checking your file..

Thank you

You should better remove it from your server now, to protect the details in it

No worries (as we say in Australia). The cookie details (the password) has been changed since I posted it - but thank you for the warning. Do not be surprised about at the referral website - I always use it for security reasons.

[arachnologist]

I'm checking your file. You should better remove it from your server now, to protect the details in it.

Hi - any update on my problem? What's the checking result?

[Giorgio Maone]

I couldn't reproduce the issue in other ways than putting a wrong path in the grx on purpose.

However I added a new option in just released FlashGot 1.1.9.3 for you to work-around (as you asked):
FlashGot Options|General|Download Manager|Get Right|Skip confirmation prompts.

It will send the files straight to GetRight with no File: specification.

Hope it helps and sorry for the delay.

[arachnologist]

Thank you Giorgio. Works fine now.

[otoupalik]

i had the SAME problem, this was very helpful! Thanks!