In my previous post, I have demonstrated how to use aria2 as the main downloader
on Unix/Linux
(Aria2 as Default Download Manager on Unix/Linux).
However, there is still one thing missing. That is browser integration. Luckily,
Conkeror allow me to customize it very easily through the init file. To achieve,
you need to modify the content_handler_prompt function in
content-handler.js file. Add this to your .conkerorrc file for it to
overwrite the conkeror’s built in one (sadly, I haven’t found any better
solution).
function content_handler_prompt (ctx) {
var action_chosen = false;
var can_view_internally = ctx.frame != null &&
can_override_mime_type_for_uri(ctx.launcher.source);
var panel;
try {
panel = create_info_panel(ctx.window, "download-panel",
[["downloading", "Downloading:", ctx.launcher.source.spec],
["mime-type", "Mime type:", ctx.launcher.MIMEInfo.MIMEType]]);
// add my own option (a for aria2)
var action = yield ctx.window.minibuffer.read_single_character_option(
$prompt = "Action to perform: (s: save; o: open; O: open URL; c: copy URL; a: aria2; "+
(can_view_internally ? "i: view internally; t: view as text)" : ")"),
$options = (can_view_internally ? ["s", "o", "O", "c", "a", "i", "t"] : ["s", "o", "O", "c", "a"]));
switch (action) {
case "s":
yield content_handler_save(ctx);
action_chosen = true;
break;
case "o":
yield content_handler_open(ctx);
action_chosen = true;
break;
case "O":
yield content_handler_open_url(ctx);
action_chosen = true;
break;
case "c":
yield content_handler_copy_url(ctx);
action_chosen = true;
break;
case "i":
yield content_handler_view_internally(ctx);
action_chosen = true;
break;
case "t":
yield content_handler_view_as_text(ctx);
action_chosen = true;
break;
case "a":
yield content_handler_add_to_aria2(ctx);
action_chosen = true;
break;
}
} catch (e) {
handle_interactive_error(ctx.window, e);
} finally {
if (! action_chosen)
ctx.abort();
if (panel)
panel.destroy();
}
}In the function above, I have modified it to add one more option (press a)
for calling to content_handler_add_to_aria2 function when the download
happens. Because of that, we need to define the content_handler_add_to_aria2
for sending download request to aria2.
function content_handler_add_to_aria2(ctx) {
var source = ctx.launcher.source.spec;
// for aria2
var req = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/xmlextras/xmlhttprequest;1"].createInstance();
var data = {
'jsonrpc':'2.0',
'id':'qwer',
'method':'aria2.addUri',
'params':[[source]]
};
// open the request
req.open('POST', "http://localhost:6800/jsonrpc", true);
ctx.window.minibuffer.message("Sending download to aria2...");
req.onreadystatechange = function (aEvt) {
if (req.readyState === 4) {
if(req.status === 200)
ctx.window.minibuffer.message("Download sent to aria2 successfully");
else
ctx.window.minibuffer.message("Error while sending download to aria2");
}
};
req.send(JSON.stringify(data));
}This function send a JSON request to aria2 RPC listening on port 6800 (aria2’s default port) so that you need to start aria2 RPC before. Please refer to my previous post (Aria2 as Default Download Manager on Unix/Linux) for instruction on how to start aria2 RPC daemon.
Now open any link that download a file, press a when it prompt for an option
and then the download is sent to aria2 automatically.
