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Re: Jump.cgi / Firefox Question
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Date: 
Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:57:01 GMT
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On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 11:23:49PM +0000, Janey Cook wrote:
Curious if this "glitch" can this be fixed or at least explained to
me?

Often someone posts video clips of a MOC or event and I want to
directly save them to my drive.

When I want to save a direct link using "save link as" (for example -
someone's posted .mov) from a post on Lugnet while using Firefox as my
browser I'm prompted with a download titled jump.cgi   which of course
is not the movie file I'm attempting to download.

Actually, it IS downloading the movie, just suggesting the wrong
filename.

If I open the exact same post with Internet Exploder, errr Explorer
using the "save target as" works, and it directly downloads the .mov
file to my machine, as it should.

I would prefer to never have to open IE, is it possible to have this
Firefox glitch corrected?

It should be possible to adjust the jump.cgi so that instead of:

  http://www.lugnet.com/jump.cgi?http://www.bluerocketwriting.com/roboCam.mov

it would be:

  http://www.lugnet.com/jump/http://www.bluerocketwriting.com/roboCam.mov

Which would allow FF to save it as the correct name, while still
allowing lugnet to track the outgoing link.  Maybe we could even
implement it as an apache redirect so that the .cgi wouldn't even need
to be spawned.

We shall see.

--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com



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(...) Hmmm, well I didnt realise that because even when I have changed the file to the right name, my machine cant/wont play it. Maybe I am missing something when it comes to being able to change the extention. Geek is greek to me! snipped (...) (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)

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Curious if this "glitch" can this be fixed or at least explained to me? Often someone posts video clips of a MOC or event and I want to directly save them to my drive. When I want to save a direct link using "save link as" (for example - someone's (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.general)

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