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Add-on downthemall does not recognize pdf-files on website which asks for a login/password

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murph369
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I recently downloaded a great add-on "downthemall" (dta) as I need to download a lot of single pdf-files from a website. Unfortunatelly downthemall does not recognize the pdf-files on the respective website as such. I guess the problem is that the website requires a login which dta should take from my password-manager apparently, as when I download all files only html-files are stored, which are login-links for the respective web-site

I recently downloaded a great add-on "downthemall" (dta) as I need to download a lot of single pdf-files from a website. Unfortunatelly downthemall does not recognize the pdf-files on the respective website as such. I guess the problem is that the website requires a login which dta should take from my password-manager apparently, as when I download all files only html-files are stored, which are login-links for the respective web-site

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Manojit Ghosh
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Have you tried the add-on's support options from this page:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/

Can you post some example links with mentions of what you expected and what you are getting?

murph369
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Well, i looked over the topics from the site you suggested (redirected to http://www.downthemall.net/howto/faq/#incompatext )

The problem can be seen in the attached plots. dta doesn't recognize the pdf-files on the respective website. When it starts downloading, I guess it tries to get the pdf behind the links e.g.

https://www.moodle.tum.de/mod/resource/view.php?id=162668

This link is not accessible as a login is required (if not already logged in). So I get an output with a lot of html-files, redirecting me (with firefox) to the website where I can in deed find the pdf I need, when I log in...

Manojit Ghosh
Manojit Ghosh
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Please give the following information:

Does DTA work when you are logged in to the site?

If yes, then this is a security feature of the website to prevent unauthorized downloads i.e downloads by users who are not registered.

Ilungisiwe ngu Manojit Ghosh

murph369
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Well it works, meaning it downloads files. But as written above, it doesn't download the files which I want it to download. Only html-links to the respective login-sites are created. On the other hand I was able to download some pdfs successfully from the site but I cannot repeat that. Actually I have no idea which settings I could have changed in DTA...

Is there a special panel where to give DTA the login-data for the respective web-site?