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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: krun and http_post
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-02-28 16:05:22
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 05:08:20PM +0100, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > Hi (kio gurus :)
> >
> > I was wondering if there's some way to make KRun/KIO::MimetypeJob use
> > http_post in case we have post-data available?
> 
> That would be hard. We can't send the post-data once to find out the 
> mimetype and a second time to get the actual page. (You would get all 
> your books from amazon.com twice :-)

:-)
So what about re-using the same job (since MimeTypeJob is a TransferJob) ?
The download would start, mimetype would be emitted, but the rest
of the download would go on with the same job.

That would mean big changes in KRun though, I'm afraid...

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