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Re: You can't download this image

#201
what, sure if initiating the save as.. triggers this endless download thing

but the initial load is the image and opening up dev tools and finding it in the sources/cache and saving it from there, chrome knows it's 56.1kb or whatever and just saves it out of cache, done.

Interesting but what was the point they're trying to make?

Re: You can't download this image

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

As far as I remember from a previous project from a few years ago, the browser doesn't include a referrer for the download request, which can be used for a distinction. (You'll have to disable caching and E-Tags for this to work.) However, this is easily defeated by the use of the console: Select the sources tab, locate the image and simply drag-and-drop the image from there, which will use the local cache instance f…

> [...] which will use the local cache instance for the source I don't understand why browsers aren't always doing this. They already have the image, why redownload it?

> They already have the image, why redownload it?

They don’t already have the image. They have part of the image. Because the connection hasn’t closed, as far as the browser is concerned, it’s still in the process of downloading it.

Re: You can't download this image

#206
It always baffled me browsers even try to download an image (or a page or whatever) I asked them to save despite fact they have already downloaded and displayed it. What I would want them to do instead is just dump it from the memory.

And this sounds particularly important in case it's about a web page which has been altered in runtime by JavaScript - I want the actual DOM dumped so I can then loaded it to display exactly what I see now.

Re: You can't download this image

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most programmers these days don't know what computers are capable of.

In fairness to them, a lot of programmers didn't come up the way (we presumably) did - if you started using computers/programming in the 80's and building computers in the 90's your worldview is going to be fundamentally different to someone who started in 2018. We came from a world where bytes mattered they come from a world where Gigabytes matter. In some ways caring about that stuff can be detrimental, at the back…

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Re: You can't download this image

#209

It always baffled me browsers even try to download an image (or a page or whatever) I asked them to save despite fact they have already downloaded and displayed it. What I would want them to do instead is just dump it from the memory. And this sounds particularly important in case it's about a web page which has been altered in runtime by JavaScript - I want the actual DOM dumped so I can then loaded it to display ex…

I've always thought the same. The data is there, why go through the trouble of downloading it again?
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