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Re: How much of a ][ is needed to twitch?
mdj wrote:
> On Feb 12, 4:44 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
>> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>> > Alex Freed wrote:
>>
>> >> "Tristan Mumford" <xtristan.xmumf...@xgmail.xcom> wrote in message
>> >>news:45cfb10d$0$52907$c30e37c6@lon-reader.news.telstra.net...
>>
>> >>> ARGH!!! My browser has decided to only let me view it and not
>> >>> download it.
>>
>> >> Not just your browser. I'll share a secret with you.
>> >> Open the link. Wait for it to download.
>> >> Click "save as" in the browser and it will save the .pfd file.
>> >> At least this works with Mozila Firefox.
>>
>> > Hmmm, that's funny, "Download target as..." works for me...
>>
>> A little more research shows that it doesn't work with Firefox,
>> but it does work with MSIE 7.
>
> Curious... When I simply left-click in Firefox (Windows XP) the
> Acrobat plugin springs to life and displays the document.
>
> Considering the site does a 302 (http redirect) to a url ending
> in .pdf, and sets the stream content type (correctly) to application/
> pdf - I'd suggest anyone having a problem needs to update their
> browser.
>
> Matt
My problem was wanting to save it without all the overhead of the embedded
pdf displayer (kpdf) loading it. I ended up nailing it with Iceweasel
though. it was that I was using konqueror was the problem. Wow that grammar
is terrible. Too many hours of solder fumes today :)
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