Posted by Ed Mullen on 12/11/06 15:12

Ed Seedhouse wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:08:45 GMT, Cogito <nospam@nospam.nospam> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 20:47:18 -0500, "Jonathan N. Little"
>> <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:
>
>
>>> Save yourself the trouble and use a browser like Firefox and look at
>>> "Tools|Page Info" got to the "Media" table find the swf file click "Save
>>> As" button. No HTML file needed...
>>
>> Wow, Firefox is smart. I have installed the latest 2.0 as soon as it
>> was released, but I must admit that I have not been using it too much.
>> And I was totally unaware of this nice feature. Thanks.
>>
>> Is there a list somewhere of other such cool things in Firefox?
>
> Myself I just click the right mouse button somewher on the page, then
> pick the "Save as" item on the resulting dropdown. IE allows that too.
> In fact every browser I've heard of allows that.
>

It won't help in the OP's usage because he's doing exactly what I do to
download media files whose links are either indirect or have been
obscured to the point that they will only stream. You can't right-click
and save because the link isn't to the file. However, with some clever
poking around in page source one can many times find (or construct) a
workable link to the file. I then paste that link into a local page,
save it, load the page in my browser, and /then/ I can do the
right-click save routine.

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