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Trying to access an index of .pdf files in a website using Opera-7.11 in Mdk9.1 and when I click on the links to each article I am returned to the index. Poking around in the source showed me that the link was website url/index.asp?Z=<large number>&articleid=<number>. I found the file it was pointing to and I called it direct, but can anyone tell me what is happening?

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I can't really supply that as this is a password-protected site for specialist information my wife uses. I mailed the site maintainer and he says to check I have Acrobat Reader installed!

Before going back to him I just thought I would research the asp business as I understand it is a Microsoft scripting language so wondered if perhaps it was unavailable to we Linux anarchists.

When I checked it again on my other machine I noticed briefly that <&redirectindex> (or something similar) was tacked onto the URL. When I reloaded the page it disappeared. That sounds to me like a clue.

It does not work on Firebird either so if it should be available to Linux (should it?) I will simply go back and tell the maintainer that the problem is his asp script not my pdf reader.

 

PS Or should I have something special installed in order to operating this asp script?

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John,

Firstly .asp is serverside scripting. Your browser should be immaterial.

 

However, several thing might be going wrong.

The script might say if IE5 do this and if IE6 do that.

Thus denying access to non M$exposer users. (hey i like that term, not bad for a browser the gives away all your info hehe :D)

 

Depending whatever you are using to read acrobat (xpdf, acroread etc.) might be a problem.

If you can open a PDF from another site then it must be their site :D

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Thanks Gowater,

 

That's the info I was looking for. I suspected it might be some M$-specific type of problem but wanted to check it out before going back to the web admin sounding paranoid. I use xpdf with no problems when calling up a direct link to a pdf file.

 

I'll now go and see if he even realises that the information he purports to make available to his registered customers is controlled not by him but by a large corporation in America. As it is an EU site, and we all know that the EU is largely fuelled by hatred and envy of America, it might even make him do something about it. Thanks again both of you for responding.

 

John

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