External download manager doesn't work

[Olivier Duchateau]

Tested with Midori 0.4.6 and 0.4.7 under FreeBSD.

When I enable External Download manager, it's always Midori which takes control (like previous versions before 0.4.6).

If I use CommandLine (with default values, wget), also tested with SteadyFlow.

$ grep download-manager ~/.config/midori/config
libexternal-download-manager.so/commandline=true
$

If I want to download, for example http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/midori/0.4/midori-0.4.7.tar.bz2, download works, it appears in bottom. But `wget' is not installed on my box, and there's no errors. I've always "old" behaviour before Midori 0.4.6.

Versions of libraries:
- Midori 0.4.6 (+ patches for Vala), Vala 0.12.1, and GLib 2.28.8
- Midori 0.4.7 (+ patches), Vala 0.12.1 / 0.14.1, and GLib 2.28.8

about:version

Command line /usr/local/bin/midori
Midori 0.4.7 (de.twotoasts.midori_128b0d58b64bcb1093db3a57c6c5b812__0)
GTK+ 2.24.6 (2.24.6) Glib 2.28.8 (2.28.8)
WebKitGTK+ 1.6.3 (1.6.3) libsoup 2.34.3
cairo 1.10.2 (1.10.2)
gcr libunique 1.1.6
granite X11;
libnotify FreeBSD
single instance i386
Platform Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD) AppleWebKit/535.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.133 Safari/535.4 Midori/0.4 H264 [x] Ogg Theora [x] WebM [x]

Identification X11;
Video Formats i386

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

The way downloads work was just overhauled so I'm marking this Incomplete. Come back after you've tried the new system and let us know how it influenced you.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for Midori because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[James (jamestheawesomedude)]

Showing up on Midori 0.5.7, Arch Linux x86_64

Command line midori
Midori 0.5.7 ((null))
GTK+ 2.24.22 (2.24.22) Glib 2.38.2 (2.38.2)
WebKitGTK+ 1.10.2 (1.10.2) libSoup 2.44.2
cairo 1.12.16 (1.12.16) libnotify 0.7.6
gcr No granite No
Platform X11; Linux x86_64
Identification Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux) AppleWebKit/537.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.133 Safari/537.6 Midori/0.5
Video Formats H264 [x]   Ogg Theora [x]   WebM [x]

[Michael Tunnell (michaeltunnell)]

I have tried Midori on many distros with many different versions and this features not ever worked...even once. I wish it worked because I could then integrate it with my app but it never has.

I am currently testing Midori 0.5.8 on Arch and as expected, it doesn't work.

Please, address this...it has been over two years since first reported.