File blacklist

[usernamestring]

Is it possible to add an option to blacklist files by md5 hash to prevent CTW from downloading them?

[fJo81VzbYs2laS9o]

Wouldn't that cause CTW to do a hash check on every single file downloaded?

[usernamestring]

I think it already does for 4chan. In the old project site the following is listed as a feature:

"4chan only: Option to verify hash of downloaded images (from the image tag's MD5 attribute)"

[fJo81VzbYs2laS9o]

CTW would have to download them first to do a hash check.

[usernamestring]

What about checking the data-md5 tags in the html document before downloading the file?

[SuperGouge]

That's actually the way it is currently done. However a file blacklist comes with other complications than for a thread blacklist. You'd have posts missing thumbnails, we'd need yet another blacklist file in the settings, and I'm not sure it would be used a lot since you would have to know the MD5 of the images and insert it manually in the file. As opposed to blacklisting threads where you just right-click and blacklist them (next release).

I'll see if more people are interested, but I don't want to "bloat" the settings with unused features.