Date   : Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:43:31 +1000
From   : devries.bob@... (Bob Devries)
Subject: bbcdocs website problem

Hi Andrew,

if I right-click the file, IE prints this message :

Internet Explorer cannot download welcome.pdf from www.bbcdocs.com.
Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site. The requested
site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later.

This problem ONLY occurs on the PDF files, and ONLY on the bbcdocs website,
btw. If I do the same thing on a ZIP file, it works as it should.

Regards, Bob Devries

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Andrew Livens 
  To: Bob Devries ; bbc-micro@... 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 9:12 PM
  Subject: RE: [BBC-Micro] bbcdocs website problem


  The replies on this are so funny - the guy just wants to be able to download 
a file and he gets pages of advice on how he should be running this and not
running that, government recommendations and deprecated operating systems,
but none on how to help fix the problem.

   

  Is it any wonder people think techies are no use to anyone ?

   

  Bob - what happens if you right click on the file and just try to save
it to your machine ?

   

  Are you able to download any of the text files or the image files from
BBCDocs directly and view them in the browser and if not what happens if
you right click on the link and just try to save it to your machine ?

   

   

  From: bbc-micro-bounces+andy=top-banana.com@... [mailto:bbc-micro-bounces+andy=top-banana.com
at lists.cloud9.co.uk] On Behalf Of Bob Devries
  Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:28 AM
  To: bbc-micro@...
  Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] bbcdocs website problem

   

  Out of interest/desperation?, I tried to download the same file from here:
http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/bbc/doc/Welcome.pdf and I successfully downloaded
it. Go figure!

   

    ----- Original Message ----- 

    From: paul aslin 

    To: bbc-micro@... 

    Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 11:56 AM

    Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] bbcdocs website problem

     



    I recommend "PDF-XChange Viewer", free from http://www.tracker-software.com/product/downloads

    Unlike the Adobe PDF viewer this one doesn't lockup, crash and get owned
by viruses. Use the save button in the program to save a copy of the file
to your hard drive.

    ----------------------------------------
    > From: devries.bob@...
    > To: bbc-micro@...; afra@...
    > Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:46:07 +1000
    > Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] bbcdocs website problem
    >
    > Hi Phill,
    > I followed your directions, and found the Welcome.pdf file, but I still
    > can't download it :(
    >
    > I know WinXP and IE6 are not the greatest, but I absolutely loathe Windows
    > 7, and since I'm running on fairly old hardware, I at least have a stable
    > arrangement.
    >
    > Regards, Bob Devries
    >
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: Phill Harvey-Smith
    > To: bbc-micro@...
    > Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 9:14 AM
    > Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] 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.
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