I've also tried of course the host www.ibm.com, which just sends back a redirect to www-1.ibm.com (a site management technique not popular for 10 years). Same thing eventually. Even if I could find the magic header to add, it wouldn't be possible to include that in a PDF link.
But hey, what would a new release of z/OS be without some carnage on the publication web site? ;-) On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 3:00 PM Paul Gilmartin < 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 14:38:14 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: > > >There's a more serious problem: something on your server is broken when > >downloading PDFs from some clients. You are given an HTTP 400 Bad > Request > >response. > > > >Browsers seem to work, but url links in PDFs from two PDF viewers that I > >tried are completely broken. This makes it impossible to have, say, a > >SHARE pdf presentation that links to an IBM V2R4 pdf publication. > > > >(It isn't something related to different "User-Agent" strings; I tried > >copying my Chrome agent string to curl -A and it fails the same way.) > > > >Here's an example of the failure using "curl": > > > >*> curl -v -L > > > https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R4sc276806/$file/foto100_v2r4.pdf > > > Is this a virtual host?: > 507 $ nslookup www-01.ibm.com > Server: 172.17.64.1 > Address: 172.17.64.1#53 > > Non-authoritative answer: > www-01.ibm.com canonical name = www-01-ext.ibm.net. > www-01-ext.ibm.net canonical name = > outer-ccdn-dual.ibmcom.edgekey.net. > outer-ccdn-dual.ibmcom.edgekey.net canonical name = > outer-ccdn-dual.ibmcom.edgekey.net.globalredir.akadns.net. > outer-ccdn-dual.ibmcom.edgekey.net.globalredir.akadns.net canonical > name = e2874.dscx.akamaiedge.net. > Name: e2874.dscx.akamaiedge.net > Address: 23.2.47.145 > > ... in such cases, I've sometimes found that supplying a "Hostname: ..." > header helps. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
