Download files not named correctly

Sun Feb 3 18:05:16 UTC 2013

On Sun, 2013-02-03 at 17:58 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:

> On 01/02/13 05:33, Rocky1937 wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 00:53 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: 
> [pruned]
> 
> 
> >> BTW, while you are still on the home page of that URL and you
> >> right-click on the name of a book and select Save As you will get the
> >> index.htm which is mentioned in the reply when you received from the
> >> website.
> 
> > Sorry if I offended but life got in the the way.
> 
> Life's a bitch anyway so there is no need to apologise for anything.
> 
> (Or, as some people, say, "Life is a sexually transmitted terminal 
> condition".)
> 
> [pruned]
> 
> > I down load each chapter as you have listed above. From the chapter 
> > page showing on the screen -- right click on the page and "save page 
> > as" does save each chapter  with the same name.  This is where my 
> > problem is now.  I am unable to move on to your next scenario.  --
> >>
> >> On the other hand, if you RIGHT-click on the chapter name you are also
> >> presented with a menu but here when you go to Save As the file names are
> >> numbered sequentially----
> >>
> >
> > And that is exactly correct -- but it is not available to me.  It DOES 
> > work for me under a Windows OS.  In addition, under ubuntu and three 
> > different browsers (firefox Google Chrome and Chromium) it DOES NOT 
> > work.  That pretty much says it is an ubuntu problem with 12.04 1 
> > LTS.  I  reinstalled 11.10 on my laptop and the downloading function 
> > worked correctly.  At that point I did a complete clean install of 
> > 12.04 1 LTS on the laptop.  Once again the download DOES NOT work.
> >
> > I am almost certain that an update 3 or 4 weeks ago broke the, then 
> > functioning, downloads under 12.04 LTS.   I have not tried upgrading 
> > to 12.10 to see is that is working properly.  This is where I stand as 
> > of last evening.
> >
> > I do all updates as they come along to keep everything current and up 
> > to date.
> 
> The question now comes up, of course, what do you mean by "an update 3 
> or 4 weeks ago"? If I missed your description of this in earlier post 
> then I am sorry. But, "update" to what? Are we talking here Ubuntu 12.04 
> or Firefox to bring it up to v18.0 which you stated you are using in 
> your opening post?
> 
> I know that you mentioned that you have other computers running Ubuntu 
> and I assume that you had them all also updated at the same time but was 
> the update to FF or the Ubuntu OS?

Yes, I did mean Ubuntu 12.04 OS updates which may have included Firefox
at the same time.

> 
> You also mention that you don't have this trouble with the Windows 
> version of Firefox - but is that running Firefox v18?

At the time Win XP was using FF 12.0 .  As mentioned above, the 3
browsers were Firefox Ver. 18.0.1,  Google Chrome Ver. 24.01321.57 and
Chromium Ver. 23.0.1271.97.  Windows just updated Firefox to Ver. 18.0.1
and the download is now NOT functioning as expected.

As a side note at this point -- I downloaded another browser to my
laptop yesterday, rekong Ver. 0.9.1and that one IS functioning properly
(as expected).  There are 6 or seven different websites that I use for
story downloading files.  rekong worked on all of them --- the other
three still DO NOT work.

> 
> (I also know that you mentioned that you have tried other browsers under 
> Ubuntu 12.04 and they, too, have this trouble - which SEEMS to indicate 
> that it is Ubuntu 12.04 related. But what SEEMS and obvious conclusion 
> is often very wrong when it comes to computers :-( .)

> 
> I have some additional questions:
> 
> * which other browsers have you tried which produce the same problem?

See above

> 
> * did those other browsers share the same settings as you have in your 
> Firefox?

In a general sense they are all sharing the same settings

> 
> * are all the computers you have use some sort of sync-ing to keep all 
> the data "in sync" or are they all connected on the same network and the 
> data is sitting on a common server?

No, all are independent but share printers, bookmarks and passwords

> 
> * is the copy of Firefox on the Windows machine the same version as on 
> the Linux machines (and does this version have the identical 
> extensions/Add-ons installed)?

See above.  Add-ons are in general the same but as I only occasionally
use the Win machine it only has a  bare-bones approach. 

> 
> * and the last question for the day is: while you say that you are using 
> Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, which Desktop Environment are you using? xfce, gnome, 
> unity,...?

By and large I use Unity for most work but do go to xfce and gnome.  I
am not 'in love' with Unity and go to the other two to 'recharge my
batteries' as it were.

> 
> 
> > Thanks for hanging in there,
> 
> No problemo.

> A good problem requires good attention :-) .
> 
> BC

I think it is interesting that the Win XP machine did the update this
morning as I was writing this.  In my mind, it says to me that there was
a change in the coding within Ubuntu that effected how it sees and
downloads .html files and how it reads the url.  It's just grabbing the
wrong name:

http://awesomedude.com/mike_arram/HBP/hbp_13.htm   and 

http://awesomedude.com/jamessavik/operation_hammerhead/operation_hammerhead_12.htm  

I know nothing about writing code though.  With the rekong doing the job
I needed it to do,  the heat is off: at least for now.  Doesn't mean I
wouldn't like to know what was going on.  I'm going to look for change
logs to see when it might have happened.  Don't know which logs that
might be though!

Thanks

> 

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