nobody responded to my earlier posting (quoted below). problem has
come up again. here are some smaller sample files:
http://archive.abacusline.co.uk/gerald.zip
http://archive.abacusline.co.uk/gerald.jpg
Username: archive
Password: amusement
not sure what's happening here at the password stage. this file
downloads now (unlike the 5M one below) but displays in Netsurf as
goggledygoop text rather than as picture or zipfile icon. note that
it happens first-time-round only: if you try again after having put
the password in once, it does not ask the password again and behaves.
is this a Netsurf problem or something to do with the email client
that i use (MPro 5.13)? --jim
Jim Nagel wrote on 6 May:
> One of the Archive writers put a 5M zip file for me on his website and
> emailed me the link, along with the username and password it requires.
> When I click the link in the email (displayed by MPro), Netsurf (2.5)
> fires up, opens a blank page and puts up the "site authentication"
> dialogue asking username and password. Then it spends ages apparently
> fetching the file, then says "Processing document" with hourglass for
> ages and finally crashes.
> I tried loading Fresco and clicked the same link in the email. It
> asked username and password, downloaded the file in 16 seconds and
> popped up a savebox showing a zipfile.
> As a workaround with Netsurf, I copied the link from the email into a
> simple HTML page so I could *Shift*-click it. That worked OK.
> However, the progress box during the download showed peculiar
> behaviour: the estimated time kept changing between between two rather
> high values that proved meaningless.
> Summary: it seems Netsurf 2.5 (RiscOS 4.39) gets confused when an
> emailed link involves authentication. I filed a bug report with log.
> Anybody experienced similar?
--
Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
