On Saturday 16 June 2001 06:03 pm, you wrote: > From "David McNab" <david at rebirthing.co.nz> > > >> I don't know if anyone has mentioned this Fproxy quirk: When you click > >> on > > > >a > > > >> link to a file-type your browser doesn't know about, your node starts > >> downloading the file while your browser pops up a dialog asking if you > > > >want > > > >> to download it > > > >Fault of browser, not fproxy. Seems that the browser makes this decision > >based on the file extension of the URL. > >For instance, > >MSK at SSK@p0EFqjmDioSqKmYYORPrClUepi4QAgE/snarfoo//index.html > >causes a normal load of snarfoo's main page, while > >MSK at SSK@p0EFqjmDioSqKmYYORPrClUepi4QAgE/snarfoo// > >causes the download dialog to pop up, because as far as the browser's > >concerned, the incoming data ain't html. Seems the browser ignores the > >'content-type' coming back in the reply header. > > > >This is probably why it's become standard practice for freesite links to > >include the default page. This needs to go into the list of 'good freesite > >design tips', if there is such a list. > > > >I can't see any workaround for this within FProxy. > > > >David > > It's very common for http websites to have pages ending in '/'... is it the > double-slash that's confusing the browser, or what? >
I wasn't clear enough. When you have the anonymity filter thing on in Fproxy sometimes you click on a link to download something (not an MSK site link). Fproxy pops up an html page that says something like "Warning the content you are about to download is an application of type unknown" or something like that. Of course I can't find an example now. At this point though, the node is already happily downloading this file. When you click on the link to start downloading it starts downloading another copy in parallel. But I think David is right, I don't see any way around it except to put a notice on the page Fproxy generates saying its already downloading, come back later and get it from your local datastore. Anyhoo, people with over a 56k connection probably won't notice. > -- > Benjamin Coates > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
