I tried to download a propriertary JDK6, worst download experience ever ... clicked download which gave me a JNLP file (???). I first thought it was a bug, so i reloaded the page. No, it's the "Tvo Download Manager". You need to read the "download" button's tooltip to understand what was going on.
This started a 3 tab download manager:
- Download: you configure where the file is to be downloaded, the number of retries, the logfile size (???), whether it has to unzip or not, etc
- Proxies: HTTP and FTP proxies configuration. I failed to enter any valid proxy there (it always claimed the proxy was invalid). At first this "tool" must have inherited browser settings.
- Authentication: totally failed to configure this tab with host authentication list, etc
You want to dowload a zip and you end up with a bloated java downloader for HTTP downloading which doesn't handle transparent proxy configuration and authentification. So i haven't downloaded anything and i'm going to stay as far as possible from this unethical crap. (If that zip was to be downloaded bia bittorrent, i would have understood the need for a downloader.)
WTF
PS: I was a proxy admin in my previous job.
