Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:27:39 +0200 Tim Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think it's a problem with firefox, it looks like a screwed-up > webserver which, judging by your earlier emails in this thread, you > don't have much hope of getting fixed. Although he said it does work on an iP

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Mike Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Firefox says "Download login.pl?". Half the time it downloads home.html, and > half the time it downloads login.pl, both files blank as /dev/null. I guess > it's a problem with Firefox, then? Some web browsers (notably IE) wi

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

I don't think it's a problem with firefox, it looks like a screwed-up webserver which, judging by your earlier emails in this thread, you don't have much hope of getting fixed. I'd try http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/installation.html first to verify that it is the content-type header that's

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Tim Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > So what is actually in the login.pl file that your college's webserver > sends to firefox? Is it perl code (presumably their actual login script)? Or > is it HTML? or is it blank? > > I have heard a rumour that if the webser

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

So what is actually in the login.pl file that your college's webserver sends to firefox? Is it perl code (presumably their actual login script)? Or is it HTML? or is it blank? I have heard a rumour that if the webserver doesn't send the right Content-type header (eg. Content-type: text/html) I

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

Mike Pobega wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Chris Burkhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > Mike Pobega wrote: > > So it's a problem on my college's end and not mine? > > That's what it sounds like. Can use someone else's computer and > see

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

Mike Pobega wrote: > So it's a problem on my college's end and not mine? That's what it sounds like. Can use someone else's computer and see if you can connect from Windows? - Chris > > On 9/3/08, *Steve Lamb* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

So it's a problem on my college's end and not mine? On 9/3/08, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 06:58:24PM -0400, Mike Pobega wrote: > > I am desperately trying to fix this, but I have no clue what to do and my > > college technology office is a joke. > >Well,

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 06:58:24PM -0400, Mike Pobega wrote: > I am desperately trying to fix this, but I have no clue what to do and my > college technology office is a joke. Well, that much is obvious. They're the ones that have to fix this. Their server is sending you login.pl instead of r

College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

My college has wireless internet available to all the students, but I'm having a problem connecting - I was able to get a DHCP address, but when I try to browse the network is supposed to force me to login with my student ID, but the login.pl script is being saved by Firefox, as opposed to being di