[4418] in SIPB bug reports
Bugs in Mosaic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (wchuang@MIT.EDU)
Tue Mar 1 22:20:07 1994
From: wchuang@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 94 22:19:45 EST
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Mosaic apparently has a bug dealing with remotely accessible, gzip'd
files. I had links of the type:
<a href="foo.html.gz"> foo </a>
and also:
<a href="bar.txt.gz"> bar </a>
<a href="quux.text.gz"> quux </a>
and in each case, accessing the files through a remote host (i.e.,
"Open..." with
"http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/user/w/c/wchuang/www/...html-filename",
where "html-filename" contained the hypertext links to the gzip'd docs),
resulted in the infamous
NCSA Mosaic: Save Binary File To Local Disk
dialog box appearing. Not that the dialog box was useful, mind you. I
could always save the stuff to local disk, but Mosaic didn't bother
displaying it, or doing anything with it (i.e., repeatedly selecting the
link resulted in the same thing). You'd think that if Mosaic could
uncompress gzip'ed files on the fly, when they are local... that it
should be able to do the same when they are remote. Guess not. (Of
course, it works fine for compress'd files, remote/local. Go figure.)
Anyway, I'd just like someone to note this down, and hopefully fix the
thing, because gzip is a better friend to me than compress is. Really.
:P
-William
