Re: Websites which insist upon Adobe Acrobat
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On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:12:12 +0200
Sjoerd Hardeman <sjoerd@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
> Charles schreef:
> > On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:15:05 +0200
> > Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2009-09-02 23:44 +0200, Charles wrote:
> >
> >>> I have run across several websites lately which insist they
> >>> cannot download PDF files to you because you don't have Adobe
> >>> Acrobat installed.
> >> To say the truth, I cannot remember having ever met such a
> >> website myself. Everyone serves PDF files as MIME type
> >> application/pdf, and my browser offers the choice between saving
> >> them and opening them in an external PDF viewer.
> >
> > Not everyone.
> > When the cursor is over the item all you see (at the bottom of
> > the firefox screen) is javascript commands...not the usual
> > http:// stuff (usually ending in whatever.pdf. When you click on
> > the item, that's when it tells you you need Adobe..and even
> > offers a link to download it :)
> Can't you look in the source of the site, and see if the link to
> the pdf is named in some javascript function? (firebug is great for
> that) Of course not ideal, but it might just work.
Good idea. I will do that.
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Charles
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