tag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:/discussions/problems/8130-creation-modification-timestamp-for-downloaded-files-is-not-preservedTenFourFox: Discussion 2016-05-24T13:56:36Ztag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:Comment/399290262016-05-20T16:09:28Z2016-05-24T13:53:52ZCreation & Modification Timestamp for downloaded files is NOT preserved<div><p>This is actually a very long running complaint against Mozilla,
and in general they have been sceptical of the idea. See, among
others,</p>
<p><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178506">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178506</a>
(note that this was WONTFIXed)<br>
<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733954">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733954</a></p>
<p>There is a very unreliable extension that could enable this
functionality, but I am doubtful it works properly with current
versions of TenFourFox or Firefox (it didn't work properly even at
the time). You make a rational case but fixing the problem requires
some moderate amount of low-level plumbing and I am not likely to
do this myself.</p></div>Cameron Kaisertag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:Comment/399290262016-05-24T08:22:07Z2016-05-24T13:53:51ZCreation & Modification Timestamp for downloaded files is NOT preserved<div><p>Thank you very much for answering!</p>
<p>I thought it would be a feature much easier to implement as
almost every other downloading browser and downloading tool
(Safari, Internet Explorer 5.5(!), iCab, curl & wget, Transmit)
is preserving the file date.</p>
<p>• Might be just requesting the file's date from the server
and adjusting the final file after downloading with the right date
(like the touch command does?)</p>
<p>• A work-around might be implementing a menu point in the
context-menu spawning a curl/wget thread which does the heavy
lifting of downloading the file with the right date. (no progress
view in the download manager then, I suppose)</p>
<p>• Modern Cocoa API has the NSURL framework which supplies
high-level functions to download/upload files. It is known to
preserve the file's date as it is used in the Safari browser. I do
not know if it is already available in Mac OS X 10.4/10.5 which you
are aiming.</p>
<p>Greetings.</p>
<p>20.05.2016, 19:09, "Cameron Kaiser" <a href="mailto:tender2+de65622e5c@tenderapp.com">tender2+de65622e5c@tenderapp.com</a>:</p></div>kitchen2020tag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:Comment/399290262016-05-24T13:56:36Z2016-05-24T13:56:36ZCreation & Modification Timestamp for downloaded files is NOT preserved<div><p>While the solution might seem simple, the download manager in
Firefox/TenFourFox is implemented in JavaScript, not C/C++, which
is different from all of the browsers you mentioned. Some plumbing
needs to be done at the low end to pass these values along on the
channel and the front end needs to handle them. It's not a massive
undertaking but it isn't a trivial one. Again, it's not something
I'm likely to work on myself.</p></div>Cameron Kaiser