petercat opened this issue on Mar 10, 2001 ยท 4 posts
petercat posted Sat, 10 March 2001 at 8:00 PM
I'm not sure how to bring this to the attention of the site admins, so if this isn't the right place, I'd appreciate it if someone can point me in the right direction. I'm using Internet Explorer 5 on a Mac, and when downloading from the Free Stuff section, the file always gets saved with the name "freestuffdownload.ez?Form.sess_id=911064&Form.sess_key=984273304" instead of the real file name. It works OK when I try it at work, using IE4 on a Windows NT machine. I'm guessing this is a side-effect of whatever magic makes the download begin from another site, without an intermediate window popping up. Opening the download link in a new window doesn't help, the download begins anyway to "freestuffdownload.ez." At least IE is usually smart enough to add a number if there's already a file there with that name. Anyway, I just wanted to bring this to the attention of the site admins so they can pass it along to the vendor of the site software for a fix or workaround. Microsoft seems to be using the Mac versions of its apps to try out new ways of doing things, so this funkiness may show up in IE6 for Windows. Other than that, Renderosity is great, keep up the good work!
rcook posted Sat, 10 March 2001 at 8:36 PM
I'm the guy you're trying to get ahold of. We wrote and maintain the software ourselves. What's happening is that the browser isn't picking up the file name when we do a HTTP redirect to another URL that is actually a file. It is simply dispalying the last known URL in the browser window. So far, we've only seen this problem on the Mac platform. I'm sorry, but there isn't really a "fix" for this behavior.
petercat posted Sun, 11 March 2001 at 1:26 AM
Thanks, I'll try reporting it to Microsoft.
MartinC posted Sun, 11 March 2001 at 10:52 AM
Attached Link: http://www.iCab.de
Try iCab... :-) :-) :-) I'm spreading propaganda for it now for months, and will take every opportunity to repeat it... You have maximum control over security, cookies, JavaScript (no more popups unless you want them, ha!) and the FunStuff will download without hassle.