Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Mike Meyer wrote: > > >>Since following standards is optional on the web, at least if things >>work in the most popular browser of the day, I probably should have >>seen this coming. > > > IE has no problems handling that link, if that's what you mean. > > judging from > > [ Info] Unable to open input file: > http://www.mired.org/downloads/P(x)-0.2.tar.gz > [ Info] Compilation error: Unrecognized header string > > it looks like LB has configured his browser to pass all gz files to some > ancient VRML plugin; see e.g. > > http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#VRML_error > For the avoidance of doubt, the problem for me wasn't with the browser, it was Thunderbird that decided the URL ended just before the closing parenthesis. For some reason the opening paren and the x were perfectly acceptable.
Copying the text and pasting it into Firefox's location widget brought the page up without difficulty. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
