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