Heh. I was trying to clean out my bookmarks today, too.

Some day, far in the future, when there's nothing at all better to do (including lying down in fields of flowers) it would be nice if we could delete the book mark from the page where the post lives. You know, when you click mark and then months later, go to check out your bookmarks and click on the book mark, get to the page, and realize you don't need it bookmarked any more. If we could click on what now reads marked to unmark the post, it would be handy.

Or I could just be more reasonable in my bookmarking in the first place.

If we could click on what now reads marked to unmark the post, it would be handy.

That's a good suggestion Cindy. Similar to how I suggested handling the MARCIE filter.

'Unmark' link on the actual post page, instead of 'Marked'. Now on the requests list, Cindy.

I think I asked my last question too subtly.

Can Jon or ita tell me what a threadsuck form submission would look like, transformed into a clickable URL?

This is so that it can be downloaded directly to disk rather than having to load a megabyte-sized web page into the browser window, then save it. Which sometimes crashes my browser and locks up my computer for a long time.

ita would have to answer that one, John. In my spec, all the parameters were in the URL but she did some PHP magic to hide them. I don't know PHP well enough to know how you'd do what you're asking.

I think that the direct download thing is a good idea, though.

In my spec, all the parameters were in the URL but she did some PHP magic to hide them.

I think what she did was change the form's method from "get" to "post", for the record.

Any form can be reverse-engineered quite easily -- it's how I wrote that autobrowser which we used to stress-test the board -- you just find the name and value pairs in the fields and make them into a query string.

<form action="something.php">
<input type="text" name="firstname">
<input type="text" name="secondname">
</form>

just becomes

something.php?firstname=John&secondname=H

when filled out and submitted. If the method is GET, then you see it. If the method is POST, you don't.

However it may just be that the script will not accept a GET-type request, only a POST.

it may just be that the script will not accept a GET-type request, only a POST.

Yup. This version of PHP refers to GET and POST variables separately, and I'm only checking for the one.

So, could I ask for that to be changed sometime when you have a moment?

I'd rather add a feature that changes the mime type so you're prompted to download. Would that be okay?

I'd rather add a feature that changes the mime type so you're prompted to download. Would that be okay?

Kisk-ass! I mean yeah. That way we could choose that option from a checkbox too.

My way you'd have to submit the form, then have it give you a page with the GET URL on it, then click on the GET URL with the right combination of keys/other mouse buttons for your system.

I found some PHP code on Google Groups a while ago which promised to achieve the "prompt to download" effect on all browsers -- it apparently wasn't as easy as one might think.