On Fri 21 Feb 2025 at 21:20:45 (+0000), debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > On Fri 21 Feb 2025 at 14:30:08 (-0000), Greg wrote: > > On 2025-02-21, David Wright wrote: > > > > > >> > > [1] https://www.fns.usda.gov/cnpp/thrifty-food-plan-2006 > > >> > > Table ES-1. Thrifty Food Plan market baskets, quantities > > >> > > of food purchased for a week, by age-gender group, 2006 > > > > > > I don't read PDFs /in/ the browser: it downloads it instead. > > > So while held captive at home by the weather, I dragged the mouse > > > across the Males table and dumped it in a file. > > > > > > > I get: > > > > Access Denied > > You don't have permission to access > > "http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnpp/thrifty-food-plan-2006"; on this server. > > Reference #18.dd831002.1740148075.35e89c97 > > > > https://errors.edgesuite.net/18.dd831002.1740148075.35e89c97
Perhaps it depends on browser settings (and which browser), or perhaps on where you are (your timezone is unknown), or perhaps on your ISP. > Wacky! > > For me, FF opens a normal web page and tries to download a PDF file as > well. Cheeky thing! For both the 2006 and 2021 pages. I can't be > bothered trying to find what particular combination of plugins and > preferences cause all these different behaviours. IIRC, I asked for that behaviour many moons ago when, on clicking on a PDF link the first time, it asked what to do with the file: open it with foo, bar, whatever; save to disk, etc. There was a checkbox for "always do this". So it might be in your about: config. Cheers, David.
