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Re: [ANN] ProDOS File Navigator 3.0 - Problem Rectified
In article <Wp4Hc.12031$eO.11303@edtnps89>,
Wayne Stewart <waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote:
> Bill Garber wrote:
>
>> Now it says this.
>>
>> " The file type you have requested (bin) is invalid "
>
> I got that too but I went to
> http://kreativekorp.cjb.net/apple2/index.html and Control clicked on the
> link and saved the linked file. A different browser may do things
> slightly differently but should still offer a way to do that.
>
> Wayne
It seems to be pretty browser independent - I tried with MS Internet Explorer,
Netscape Navigator, Opera, and Mozilla Firefox, and they all behaved the same
way, not downloading any file but instead displaying the message:
The file type you have requested (bin) is invalid
Even the nice freeware utlilty "curl" (available at http://curl.haxx.se), which
usually succeeds in downloading a file when the browsers fail to do it, failed
here too. Since "curl" is a command-line utility, it's easy to capture the
session as text and paste it into an email, and this curl session looked like
this:
===================================================================================
C:\PSR>curl http://kreativekorp.cjb.net/apple2/filenav.shk.bin > filenav.shk.bin
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Curr.
Dload Upload Total Current Left Speed
100 887 0 887 0 0 915 0 --:--:-- 0:00:00 --:--:-- 0
C:\PSR>type filenav.shk.bin
<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to Kreative Korporation</title>
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="keywords" content="">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://fire.prohosting.com/emilio19/favicon.ico";>
</head>
<body leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scroll="no" topmargin="0">
<iframe frameborder="0" height="100%" name="cjb" src="http://fire.prohosting.com/emilio19/apple2/filenav.shk.bin"; width="100%">
<script language="JavaScript">
location = "http://fire.prohosting.com/emilio19/apple2/filenav.shk.bin";;
</script>
<noscript>
<p><a href="http://fire.prohosting.com/emilio19/apple2/filenav.shk.bin";>http://fire.prohosting.com/emilio19/apple2/filenav.shk.bin</a></p>
<p>Welcome to Kreative Korporation</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
</noscript>
</iframe>
<script language="JavaScript" src="http://pop.mircx.com/pop/cjb/script/108926769
073276">
</script>
</body>
</html>
C:\PSR>curl http://fire.prohosting.com/emilio19/apple2/filenav.shk.bin > filenav.shk.bin
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Curr.
Dload Upload Total Current Left Speed
100 50 100 50 0 0 96 0 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0
C:\PSR>type filenav.shk.bin
The file type you have requested (bin) is invalid
===================================================================================
It's obviously the server which generates the message about bin files being
invalid. When curl downloads the first filenav.shk.bin it receives some HTML
which contains a link to another filenav.shk.bin -- when downloading that (which
must be done manually - curl only downloads one URL without trying to interpret
its contents), it receives some plain ASCII containing the text
The file type you have requested (bin) is invalid
So either the server is misconfigured somehow, or else the server just refuses
to transfer files with any extension.
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