Re: Opening ASPX files that have been downloaded
On 11/12/2010, at 2:41 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: So Tim, to view these files on a Mac you have to change the extension at some stage from .aspx to .pdf (which you have already worked out). When you click on the file in Safari, doesn't a box appear showing the file you wish to save as an .ASPX file … if it does, change the extension then to .PDF and download it. It may do in Safari Ronni. I use Firefox. As the best any of us can find is to change or add the .pdf extension, I might start on a campaign of reporting occurrences to the web site developers and using 'Ronni's Rules' to get them to do their job properly. Bankwest will be my first cab off the rank. Ta Tim -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Opening ASPX files that have been downloaded
On 11/12/2010, at 5:45 PM, Tim Law wrote: On 11/12/2010, at 2:41 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: So Tim, to view these files on a Mac you have to change the extension at some stage from .aspx to .pdf (which you have already worked out). When you click on the file in Safari, doesn't a box appear showing the file you wish to save as an .ASPX file … if it does, change the extension then to .PDF and download it. It may do in Safari Ronni. I use Firefox. As the best any of us can find is to change or add the .pdf extension, I might start on a campaign of reporting occurrences to the web site developers and using 'Ronni's Rules' to get them to do their job properly. Bankwest will be my first cab off the rank. Hi Tim, In Safari the .pdf is automatically added when you go File Save As. eg: AAR Registration Certificate.aspx.pdf I just delete the .aspx and 'Save' to my desktop. Oh, Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Opening ASPX files that have been downloaded
On 11/12/2010, at 5:45 PM, Tim Law wrote: On 11/12/2010, at 2:41 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: So Tim, to view these files on a Mac you have to change the extension at some stage from .aspx to .pdf (which you have already worked out). When you click on the file in Safari, doesn't a box appear showing the file you wish to save as an .ASPX file … if it does, change the extension then to .PDF and download it. It may do in Safari Ronni. I use Firefox. As the best any of us can find is to change or add the .pdf extension, I might start on a campaign of reporting occurrences to the web site developers and using 'Ronni's Rules' to get them to do their job properly. Bankwest will be my first cab off the rank. Hi Tim, In Safari the .pdf is automatically added when you go File Save As. eg: AAR Registration Certificate.aspx.pdf I just delete the .aspx and 'Save' to my desktop. Oh, it is NOT Ronni's Rules its the Internet Engineering Task Force rules. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Opening ASPX files that have been downloaded
Sure, but ronni's rules sounds so much better :-) Sent from my iPhone On 12/12/2010, at 10:33 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 11/12/2010, at 5:45 PM, Tim Law wrote: On 11/12/2010, at 2:41 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: So Tim, to view these files on a Mac you have to change the extension at some stage from .aspx to .pdf (which you have already worked out). When you click on the file in Safari, doesn't a box appear showing the file you wish to save as an .ASPX file … if it does, change the extension then to .PDF and download it. It may do in Safari Ronni. I use Firefox. As the best any of us can find is to change or add the .pdf extension, I might start on a campaign of reporting occurrences to the web site developers and using 'Ronni's Rules' to get them to do their job properly. Bankwest will be my first cab off the rank. Hi Tim, In Safari the .pdf is automatically added when you go File Save As. eg: AAR Registration Certificate.aspx.pdf I just delete the .aspx and 'Save' to my desktop. Oh, it is NOT Ronni's Rules its the Internet Engineering Task Force rules. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Opening ASPX files that have been downloaded
Hello, In various websites I download a document and it goes into my Downloads folder wearing an .aspx extension. The only way I can open it is to manually change the extension to .pdf when Preview will open it without fuss. The other solution I have just discovered is that by right clicking on the link in Mail and selecting 'download linked file', the file appears in my Downloads folder with a .pdf extension such as ShowPage.aspx.pdf, whereas if I simply click on the link it comes through as ShowPage.aspx I am looking for a solution that doesn't require me to do this as it will help others in the family, and me! Apple Support forums doesn't seem to have come up with any better solution, and even if I set the 'Open with' in File Info, to Preview, it won't work as Preview doesn't like the .ASPX extension I understand this is a windows file extension and the web site developers could just as easily create the download in .pdf format which would make it complaint cross platform. Ta Tim -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Opening ASPX files that have been downloaded
On 11/12/2010, at 1:47 PM, Tim Law wrote: Hello, In various websites I download a document and it goes into my Downloads folder wearing an .aspx extension. The only way I can open it is to manually change the extension to .pdf when Preview will open it without fuss. The other solution I have just discovered is that by right clicking on the link in Mail and selecting 'download linked file', the file appears in my Downloads folder with a .pdf extension such as ShowPage.aspx.pdf, whereas if I simply click on the link it comes through as ShowPage.aspx I am looking for a solution that doesn't require me to do this as it will help others in the family, and me! Apple Support forums doesn't seem to have come up with any better solution, and even if I set the 'Open with' in File Info, to Preview, it won't work as Preview doesn't like the .ASPX extension I understand this is a windows file extension and the web site developers could just as easily create the download in .pdf format which would make it complaint cross platform. Hi Tim, First …To answer how this is happening. /Quote: That’s a site issue, normally you’d serve aspx files as HTML as that’s the normal output from the server when processing an aspx file, so this would be the default behaviour on the web server. If the aspx file is going to be actually serving something else, it should use the ContentType property of the Response object to set the correct MIME type (application/pdf in this case) to override the default. These websites are not adhering to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in RFC2616 (Hypertext Transfer Protocol — HTTP/1.1), Section 7.2.1 Type, which states: “Any HTTP/1.1 message containing an entity-body SHOULD include a Content-Type header field defining the media type of that body. If and only if the media type is not given by a Content-Type field, the recipient MAY attempt to guess the media type via inspection of its content and/or the name extension(s) of the URI used to identify the resource.” In other words, how a file is processed by a browser should be determined by the Content-Type field in the http Response Header; the file suffix should be ignored when there is a Content-Type field.The Content-Type should be application/pdf not text/html This is often an issue when the folks responsible for the web server often are not aware of all the “rules” and often only check things using IE on Windows. /End Quote: So Tim, to view these files on a Mac you have to change the extension at some stage from .aspx to .pdf (which you have already worked out). When you click on the file in Safari, doesn't a box appear showing the file you wish to save as an .ASPX file … if it does, change the extension then to .PDF and download it. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Opening ASPX files that have been downloaded
Hi Tim, I think the problem is not that the developers have created a pdf file with a .aspx extension (Windows is even more touchy about extensions being right). The problem is that the .aspx link is not actually a straight link to the file - it is a link to the process on the web server that generates/retrieves the file. I just usually let the browser open the pdf in a new tab, carry on with what I'm doing and then check the pdf quickly - if it is worth saving I just right-click on it and save as. Alternatively if I just want to download it and it ends up with the .aspx extension then I just change the extension. I agree though, it is a bit of a pain sometimes ;o) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 11/12/10 1:47 PM, Tim Law at t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Hello, In various websites I download a document and it goes into my Downloads folder wearing an .aspx extension. The only way I can open it is to manually change the extension to .pdf when Preview will open it without fuss. The other solution I have just discovered is that by right clicking on the link in Mail and selecting 'download linked file', the file appears in my Downloads folder with a .pdf extension such as ShowPage.aspx.pdf, whereas if I simply click on the link it comes through as ShowPage.aspx I am looking for a solution that doesn't require me to do this as it will help others in the family, and me! Apple Support forums doesn't seem to have come up with any better solution, and even if I set the 'Open with' in File Info, to Preview, it won't work as Preview doesn't like the .ASPX extension I understand this is a windows file extension and the web site developers could just as easily create the download in .pdf format which would make it complaint cross platform. Ta Tim -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
