Re: Websites which insist upon Adobe Acrobat

[Sjoerd Hardeman <sjoerd@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl>]

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.

Sjoerd

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