Hello,
Thanks for that summation. It sure explains the whole thing in a
nutshell.
On Sep 10, 2006, at 2:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've changed the subject to reflect the fact that this is a
current problem related to Gutenberg's updating of
ebooks older than #10,000 and applies to Safari access.
There's certainly something wrong with the current operation
of the gutenberg.org site. Under Safari when you select links
to some files, such as from a search for "Don Quixote",
these show up as downloaded files with the "decompression
failed" message that Dan reports, while Internet Explorer
loads a web page for that item, with working links to individual
audio or text entries.
The downloaded files from Safari are mistagged with a .gz
extension (e.g., 7094.gz). In fact, they appear to be html
files with the contents of the web pages that you should
have been directed to (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7094/
for the previous example). Because they are identified as
.gz files but are not compressed, you get the "decompression
failed" message.
You cannot navigate to the etext address by entering the
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7094/ address directly;
you get a page not found or unavailable message. Their
current statement on this page is:
"We are gradually updating all eBooks older than #10.000,
and in the process, moving them to a new filing system."
This is something that has to be fixed at their end.
Esther
On Saturday, September 09, 2006, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
However, I suspect something is wrong with the site at the moment
because I couldn't even get the main page to load in safari; not a
safari or vo problem but something with the server for the website.
