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Subject: Download file name strangeness

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!