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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 02:24:29PM -0700, Andrew wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 01:37:31PM -0700, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> > Might we just have a DISTRIBUTABLE[0]=no variable in details only for
> > those spell files that aren't?  Summon could pick up on this and 400 the
> > source file automatically.  This seems the most natural because the
> > permissions would be more "truthful".  If I have a public shell server,
> > for example, I wouldn't want somebody getting access to the file just
> > because summon isn't smart enough.
> > 
> > Also where does summon put the files before it is completely downloaded
> > and what permissions are given the temporary file?
> > 
> 
> Okay if you really think its necessary, file a bug and I'll get to it.
> Someone will of course need to set this distributable flag on all spells
> that need it set to no.
> 
> The files usually get downloaded to /tmp although im not 100% certain
> of that for all url handlers. The mechanism is that the url handler
> downloads the file wherever it wants and then sets FILE to whatever that
> was, then libdownload goes and puts it in the right name and place.

If you'd rather I made the change, I think I can manage it, since it's
really for me.  I think this is the first z-rejected spell where the
binary is download restricted, I know j2sdk's source is, for practical
purposes, download restricted as well.

Seth

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