I have decided to set up my personal, private webserver and to serve myself files that I do not need to have on my sdcard, yet which I'd still like to be accessible through my G1 - mainly media files (ringtones, notifications, some Note Everything backup notes and a few .apk in case my sdcard dies on me), nothing major really.
Due to privacy issues, I decided to password protect the folder that had my files in, so I turned to .htaccess + .htpasswd, as I would not want anyone but me to have access to those files. And here comes the interesting part: Android's browser does ask me for the username/password as soon as I attempt to access that folder through my site, which I can enter and it'll take me to the folder's content; however, as soon as I try to download any of those residing files, it labels them as "<Unknown>" and the download appears to be corrupt (filesizes do not match). This has been tested on 3G/Edge AND Wifi. Now to assure you that apache and its configuration (httpd.conf) is not the culprit, my systems at home can all access the files just fine. And to further analyze the problem, I decided to download Opera Mini (free off the market) and after going through the same process, it actually allows me to access my password protected folder AS well as download the files correctly. It appears to me that the problem may be a minor bug in android's browser, but please correct me if I'm wrong. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
