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Try this

Posted By: Michael Petch
Date: Sunday, 3 August 2014, at 1:54 p.m.

In Response To: Try this (Tom Keith)

This should work. I sent this email response to Dimitry:

On 2014-08-02 11:05 PM, Dmitriy Obukhov wrote:
: Michael,
:
: Can you look into this problem:
: http://www.bgonline.org/forums/webbbs_config.pl?noframes;read=164746
: In my understanding some people can download, but others can't.
:

It seems to depend on the browser. If I use Chrome it is fine. If I use Firefox it can't find the files and you get a:

Not Found The resource could not be found.

Error. After experimenting I noticed that depending on the browsers interpretation of URLs that the backslashes (\) in your links are the problems. For example:

https
://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2384719\Transcribed%20matches\Novi%202014\Greg%20Gattanach%20Vs.%20Paul%20Weaver%20-%20Novi%202014.txt

(I have put a space after https deliberately so email software won't bastardize the link, you'll need to remove it)

Anyway that URL above yields file not found, however if I change the URL so that all backslashes (\) in the URL path are made into forward slashes (/) and I try that in Firefox then it works fine.

So the above link modified into this works (in all browsers it seems):

https
://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2384719/Transcribed%20matches/Novi%202014/Greg%20Gattanach%20Vs.%20Paul%20Weaver%20-%20Novi%202014.txt

My recommendation is to change all backslashes in the path name to forward slashes to make standards compliant browsers happier. The reason Google and some other browsers may work is that they silently change the \ to / but this is not required by a browser per the Internet RFC standards. Firefox happens to pass them through as is (which is perfectly valid).

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