[foms] html5 video save as...

Christopher Blizzard blizzard at mozilla.com
Tue Oct 12 14:24:20 PDT 2010


  On 10/12/2010 12:54 AM, Jeroen Wijering wrote:
> Thanks, that's a great overview. So overall, signed URLs and HTTPS already get people pretty far.
>
> What happens with the "rightclick save as" of a video in browsers? Is that a separate request to the server, or are the videos pulled from cache? And is it still possible to browse your local cache and copy over files with certain browsers?

We cache video files so you can seek, yeah.  I don't know what other 
browsers do.  I'm actually not sure how save as works.  Robert, do we 
pull that from the cache or start a separate request?

--Chris


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