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Download should warn that Chrome will flag the file

Open thomaswp opened this issue 6 years ago • 1 comments

Just a suggestion: When you download a .py file in Chrome, it warns you that this may contain a virus, and some Chrome browsers won't download it at all (~10% of my class). BlockPy may want to warn users to expect this message and not to worry about it.

thomaswp avatar Nov 20 '19 20:11 thomaswp

Hm, I'm a little hesitant to just toss up a message warning students about an error message that only a percentage will see. Students tend to be flighty, and this is the kind of thing that will trigger some students that DON'T get the message to ask "why didn't I get that message?" or ask for explanations of what it's saying. It'd be really great to find a way to detect if the download failed and show an explanation for that case.

It's also difficult to keep up with this kind of thing - security settings always seem to be evolving. I can't even repro because my version of Chrome doesn't do this. I think I'll want to get a better sense of how much of an issue this is before I make any big decisions about what kind of text to display and how to display. But thanks for starting the conversation, I'll start keeping an eye out for this.

acbart avatar Nov 25 '19 16:11 acbart