In trying to access some papers in PDF, locked up by secure login and what not over the web two point oh-no, I was stuck at the actual "access the paper" part.
After login, there is a link to a page that forwards to the URL of the PDF. In order to access, you need some cookies that show you've logged in, etc.. So when I open the link which forwards to the paper, abaco tries to open the PDF link and gives mime-type unsupported, of course. Now, if I try to highlight and right-click that link to open it in page(1), it doesn't appear, because you can't just go directly to the link. Sadly hget(1) doesn't do cookies so I can't use the session to grab the paper without abaco. So, the only thing that I think could work would be to have abaco plumb *.pdf as soon as it gets the URL, instead of trying to show it and ending up with mime-type unsupported. Best, ak
