Date   : Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:14:13 +0100
From   : afra@... (Phill Harvey-Smith)
Subject: bbcdocs website problem

Bob Devries wrote:
> Hi all,

Hi Bob,

> I seem to be having a problem grabbing files from the BBC DOCS 
> (www.bbcdocs.com) website. I click on a link and it starts to load the (PDF) 
> file, but then stops, and finally errors out.
> 
> As an example, the BBC Welcome booklet file gets to 11kB, and finally errors 
> out. I'm using IE6 and Acrobat reader 9 on WinXP Pro SP2.

You do of course realise that IE6 and XP SP2 are ancient and very 
vulnarable ?

> Oddly enough, the thumbnail link shows as: 
> File:////D:/Beeb/bbcdocs.com/filebase/essentials/Welcome.pdf
> It does, however, show the thumbnail correctly.
> 
> The file's link is: http://www.bbcdocs.com/filebase/essentials/Welcome.pdf

Humm 404 error here with Firefox 3.5.11, and XP SP3, so looks like that 
file is linked wrongly / missing....

However I was able to download the BBC user guide and Advanced user 
guide without problems.

Humm there's deffo something odd going on, I took the liink to the 
advanced user guide and pasted it into firefox, and removed the filename
:-

http://www.bbcdocs.com/filebase/essentials/

I then clicked onto the atom directory and then on parent directory 
(from the atom one), and came back up somewhere else with many more 
files.....guess someone's got their links in a twist :(

The Welcome.pdf is there and I was able to successfully download it.

Cheers.

Phill.

-- 
Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !

"You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge" -- Rush.