Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

2008-09-05 Thread Tim Edwards
So what is actually in the login.pl file that your college's webserver sends to firefox? Is it perl code (presumably their actual login script)? Or is it HTML? or is it blank? I have heard a rumour that if the webserver doesn't send the right Content-type header (eg. Content-type: text/html)

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

2008-09-05 Thread Mike Pobega
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Tim Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what is actually in the login.pl file that your college's webserver sends to firefox? Is it perl code (presumably their actual login script)? Or is it HTML? or is it blank? I have heard a rumour that if the webserver

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

2008-09-05 Thread Tim Edwards
I don't think it's a problem with firefox, it looks like a screwed-up webserver which, judging by your earlier emails in this thread, you don't have much hope of getting fixed. I'd try http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/installation.html first to verify that it is the content-type header

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

2008-09-05 Thread elijah r.
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Mike Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firefox says Download login.pl?. Half the time it downloads home.html, and half the time it downloads login.pl, both files blank as /dev/null. I guess it's a problem with Firefox, then? Some web browsers (notably IE) will

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

2008-09-05 Thread Chris Burkhardt
On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:27:39 +0200 Tim Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think it's a problem with firefox, it looks like a screwed-up webserver which, judging by your earlier emails in this thread, you don't have much hope of getting fixed. Although he said it does work on an iPod

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

2008-09-04 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Mike Pobega wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Chris Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Pobega wrote: So it's a problem on my college's end and not mine? That's what it sounds like. Can use someone else's computer and see if you can

College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

2008-09-03 Thread Mike Pobega
My college has wireless internet available to all the students, but I'm having a problem connecting - I was able to get a DHCP address, but when I try to browse the network is supposed to force me to login with my student ID, but the login.pl script is being saved by Firefox, as opposed to being

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

2008-09-03 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 06:58:24PM -0400, Mike Pobega wrote: I am desperately trying to fix this, but I have no clue what to do and my college technology office is a joke. Well, that much is obvious. They're the ones that have to fix this. Their server is sending you login.pl instead of

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

2008-09-03 Thread Mike Pobega
So it's a problem on my college's end and not mine? On 9/3/08, Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 06:58:24PM -0400, Mike Pobega wrote: I am desperately trying to fix this, but I have no clue what to do and my college technology office is a joke. Well, that much

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

2008-09-03 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Mike Pobega wrote: So it's a problem on my college's end and not mine? That's what it sounds like. Can use someone else's computer and see if you can connect from Windows? - Chris On 9/3/08, *Steve Lamb* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at