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I'd really like to see an input field to change a servers name. It's somewhat annoying to have to think about which port belongs to a server (I'm using tunnels, so they all show localhost as the host).

I'm sure this can't be too hard to implement..

Add some nice names into the hosts table and use those.
Windows: c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts I'm sure that even easier to do.

If I was using windows, that'd be possible.. However, I'm not. Okay, I know that's a possibility, but imho it's something that's supposed to be in the program itself..

If you don't think it's something needed in sabnzbd+, I'll just add it myself

For other operating systems it works the same.
All Unixes/Linuxes/OSX usee a hosts file.
(Did you think Microsoft invented this  )

I'm not saying it cannot be changed in SABnzbd, but that it has no priority now.
Currently the servers are stored with hostname:port as key.
Changing it is quite a bit of work.

I know there's a hosts file on unix/linux/osx as well, but you only mentioned the windows one.

As far as changing it, I see no need to change the way it's stored. It's just an extra field that has no function besides showing a name. I managed to change it in the configuration, but haven't figured out how to access the name on the connections page yet..

edit:
Apparently I missed something in downloader.py.. Got it working now.

Here are my changes. Maybe they could be of some use to someone..