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