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Title: Seriously
Post by: Cresho on August 25, 2006, 02:00:13 am

how do you guys expect me to download any of the Zimage for my collie if your hosting doesnt support it?  i try downloading them and all i get is numbers.  right clicking gets me an html and renaming them ruins the image.  THis is accross all of the mirrors as well.

http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...ie/zImage-32-32 (http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.4/images/collie/zImage-32-32)

Title: Seriously
Post by: miskinis on August 25, 2006, 02:15:29 am

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how do you guys expect me to download any of the Zimage for my collie if your hosting doesnt support it?  i try downloading them and all i get is numbers.  right clicking gets me an html and renaming them ruins the image.  THis is accross all of the mirrors as well.

http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...ie/zImage-32-32 (http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.4/images/collie/zImage-32-32)
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Hi, I just tried that link on my desktop (Redhat 9) browser (galeon) using
right click, and "download link" which worked.  It also worked from the
command line using wget.

I'm not affiliated with that site, just happen to see your post...

So, perhaps the issue is on your end?

John

Title: Seriously
Post by: Cresho on August 25, 2006, 02:18:04 am

i redownloaded the file as an HTML and renamed it to zimage.  Now it works but what a pain!!!!!!.

thanks for your input though and ill try that next time.  I run ubuntu as well and Kubuntu on vmware over winxp.

Title: Seriously
Post by: Meanie on August 25, 2006, 02:56:26 am

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i redownloaded the file as an HTML and renamed it to zimage.  Now it works but what a pain!!!!!!.

thanks for your input though and ill try that next time.  I run ubuntu as well and Kubuntu on vmware over winxp. in all three i was running mozilla.
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you will get the same problems with all the other modern browsers such as internet explorer and opera as well. all these browsers tell the webservers that they are smart and capable of many things whereas the other less popular browsers tell webservers that they are limited in capabilities and thus won't have these problems. so simple apps like wget always works!
the problems is that these modern webservers (ie apache 2.0 and others) have stupid defaults that can deflate (expand/uncompress) the files on the fly or tell the browsers to do it when they detect that the browser also has that capability. this kind of behaviour should not be the default, but unfortunately it is for all files with unknown mime types.