Dear Sir Felix:
You wrote:
...have a newbie question.
How do I get Safari to download the files to the iphone via the browser links?(1)
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I've been search the net for weeks(2). I was under the impression that the safari plugin is for JB ipods. Cannot find any apps or plugins for a non-JB ipod.(3)
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There are already a few PC-side access apps on the market, but none that allow iphone-side access to a PCs server.(4)
Do you really think Apple is going to address this when the burden obviously falls on the file server developer.(5)
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It seems a very simple task to pair one of these iphone server apps with HFS without having to do any programming.(6)
1. In your first post you pointed correctly the problem: Safari on i-things does not allow to download files from a web server.
2. Searching for weeks (!!!) you didn't find any solution to download files with safari without a plugin that requires JB (3).
Spending weeks on searching, you should also have learned something more: Apples Safari for i-things does not allow any download. And this is not because apple does not know how to do it, it's because they do not want that anything is downloaded from the web to their i-things. This is also one of the main reasons that there is no other browser like mozilla-firefox or opera available for i-things.
As a 'loyal HFS user' you should know what hfs means: hfs = '
http
file
server. http is the protocol used to transfer hipertext and files on the net between webservers and browsers. So, hfs works as what it is: a web server like any other web server that serves pages and files. And the browser is not part of hfs.
4. You repeat here that there is no app (=web-browser) for i-things that allow download of files.
After all this, i can (and i suppose nobody) not understand, why you write (5) that the problem is not at apple, but the developper's of the web file server!
And at last, your frustration with apple leads you to be totally confused: No matter if and how you can use an i-thing as a server, the problem for downloading from the web to an i-thing remains still the same:
the browser.
Pairing an iphone server (!!!) app with hfs 'without having to do any programming' will not produce a client!
There are only two options for i-thing users:
a) Do and use what apple allows - then you will never download from the web if apple does not change his policy and will allow it (then perhaps you would also be able to use firefox and/or opera). And the only force that can help to change this policy are apple i-thing users that complain about the missing feature.
b) Do what - as it seems - many i-thing users do: JB and use plugins. Looking at the number of related sites when searching, ¿do you think that those 'bad hackers' would JB and write plugins if it would be a 'very simple task' to download from servers 'without having to do any programming'?