Re: hiccup with emailed link to a password-protected file
nobody responded to my earlier posting (quoted below). problem has come up again. here are some smaller sample files: http://archive.abacusline.co.uk/gerald.zip http://archive.abacusline.co.uk/gerald.jpg Username:archive Password: amusement not sure what's happening here at the password stage. this file downloads now (unlike the 5M one below) but displays in Netsurf as goggledygoop text rather than as picture or zipfile icon. note that it happens first-time-round only: if you try again after having put the password in once, it does not ask the password again and behaves. is this a Netsurf problem or something to do with the email client that i use (MPro 5.13)? --jim Jim Nagel wrote on 6 May: One of the Archive writers put a 5M zip file for me on his website and emailed me the link, along with the username and password it requires. When I click the link in the email (displayed by MPro), Netsurf (2.5) fires up, opens a blank page and puts up the site authentication dialogue asking username and password. Then it spends ages apparently fetching the file, then says Processing document with hourglass for ages and finally crashes. I tried loading Fresco and clicked the same link in the email. It asked username and password, downloaded the file in 16 seconds and popped up a savebox showing a zipfile. As a workaround with Netsurf, I copied the link from the email into a simple HTML page so I could *Shift*-click it. That worked OK. However, the progress box during the download showed peculiar behaviour: the estimated time kept changing between between two rather high values that proved meaningless. Summary: it seems Netsurf 2.5 (RiscOS 4.39) gets confused when an emailed link involves authentication. I filed a bug report with log. Anybody experienced similar? -- Jim Nagelwww.archivemag.co.uk
Re: hiccup with emailed link to a password-protected file
On 17 May 2010 Jim Nagel nets...@abbeypress.co.uk wrote: nobody responded to my earlier posting (quoted below). problem has come up again. here are some smaller sample files: Oh, yes, I have! On the MPro list. And is it wise to put Gerald's passwords on a public posting, I wonder? [snip] With best wishes, Peter. -- Peter, \ / zfc Yb \ Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52 Anne\/ ____\ England. and / / \ | | |\ | / _\ http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk family / \__/ \_/ | \| \__/ \__ pnyo...@ormail.co.uk
Re: hiccup with emailed link to a password-protected file
In message ac3def1851@nails.ukonline.co.uk Jim Nagel nets...@abbeypress.co.uk wrote: nobody responded to my earlier posting (quoted below). problem has come up again. here are some smaller sample files: http://archive.abacusline.co.uk/gerald.zip http://archive.abacusline.co.uk/gerald.jpg Username:archive Password: amusement not sure what's happening here at the password stage. this file downloads now (unlike the 5M one below) but displays in Netsurf as goggledygoop text rather than as picture or zipfile icon. note that it happens first-time-round only: if you try again after having put the password in once, it does not ask the password again and behaves. is this a Netsurf problem or something to do with the email client that i use (MPro 5.13)? --jim Jim Nagel wrote on 6 May: One of the Archive writers put a 5M zip file for me on his website and emailed me the link, along with the username and password it requires. When I click the link in the email (displayed by MPro), Netsurf (2.5) fires up, opens a blank page and puts up the site authentication dialogue asking username and password. Then it spends ages apparently fetching the file, then says Processing document with hourglass for ages and finally crashes. I tried loading Fresco and clicked the same link in the email. It asked username and password, downloaded the file in 16 seconds and popped up a savebox showing a zipfile. As a workaround with Netsurf, I copied the link from the email into a simple HTML page so I could *Shift*-click it. That worked OK. However, the progress box during the download showed peculiar behaviour: the estimated time kept changing between between two rather high values that proved meaningless. Summary: it seems Netsurf 2.5 (RiscOS 4.39) gets confused when an emailed link involves authentication. I filed a bug report with log. Anybody experienced similar? Seems to be a Netsurf 2.5 issue. As I reported on the Netsurf mailing list I see the same with 2.5 (refresh renders the jpeg as a picture) but not with development version r10487 26 April. Anthony -- Anthony Hilton a...@tinshill.f9.co.uk
Re: hiccup with emailed link to a password-protected file
On 17 May, Jim Nagel wrote in message ac3def1851@nails.ukonline.co.uk: nobody responded to my earlier posting (quoted below). problem has come up again. here are some smaller sample files: http://archive.abacusline.co.uk/gerald.zip http://archive.abacusline.co.uk/gerald.jpg Username:archive Password: amusement Is Gerald happy with those details going public? He might want to change the password once others here have tested that URL... not sure what's happening here at the password stage. this file downloads now (unlike the 5M one below) but displays in Netsurf as goggledygoop text rather than as picture or zipfile icon. note that it happens first-time-round only: if you try again after having put the password in once, it does not ask the password again and behaves. Testing that first URL with wget, the server initially responds by saying that the file is text/html, and then reconsiders after authentication and states that it is really application/zip. It looks as if NetSurf is going with the first claim, and rendering the page as text in the browser window -- in the case of the 5M file, I suspect it then runs out of memory and crashes. I'll leave it to someone else to comment on if there's something wrong with the way NetSurf is dealing with the supplied Content-Type headers in this case; it's not something I'm familiar with. -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/
