Downloading Painfully Slow?

[catsclaw227]

There system is flawed to where it corrupts normal browser operation, and they need to be informed about it.

Let's see... I am going to take a wild guess that in over 90% of the Acrobat reader installations, that the checkbox for opening PDFs in the browser is checked, since this is the default setting.

Sounds to me that opening a PDF in the browser when one is launched from the web is considered normal browser operation.

Also when you work with them you don't have to "trying to sound like an expert", it just comes natural to speak in acronyms as they are. Properly searching would yield anyone the information they need. The first thing in Google is a wikipedia page on what a BHO is. From there people can find whichever product they wish to help them remove them.

I am not going to babysit people on the internet and get their computers working perfectly for free, they should be able to at least use Google and search for things.

Ok, I understand. I guess we are just different, in that I consider it being helpful instead of babysitting.

Again, WotC needs to make it where people can save an article or compiled issue without having to jump through stupid hoops and allow natural and normal internet viewing to continue without what I would consider to be a virus since it alters the way your computer works for the personal gain of WotC, by trying to force a PDF to be viewed in a browser rather than letting you save it for viewing later. Portable Document Format, not View Only While on WotC Website Document Format. (VOWoWWDF)

I will agree that classic asp is not the best way to go, and that they could make a change from their current download.asp to allow users to get a list of links directly to PDFs that they are authorized to view.

But WOTC is not "forcing" anyone to open the PDF in the browser. They just haven't provided a server side alternative. Either way, there are a large number of sites that do just what WOTC is doing for security reasons. Just ask anyone in the Health & Wellness, Finance/Banking or Insurance industries what the SOP is with regards to secure access to downloads.

It's an easy fix for the end user, especially if someone is helpful enough to explain how.

And please don't insinuate that I am an internet bully. I asked you, quite plainly, to back off the personal attacks before.

 

[justanobody]

Sounds to me that opening a PDF in the browser when one is launched from the web is considered normal browser operation.

SAdly the defualt settings have nothing to do with normal, but just factory defaults, and the way the company making the product wants you to use their software. Also not everyone uses Abode Acrobat to read PDFs, which can mean problems for sites that assume that people intend to open the file in their browser like DDI rather than saving them as you later state asp being a problem.

babysitting

There are too many people on the internet to try to tell everyone every exact setting to set any program to to make sure everything works, and do it for free. It is great to be able to help, but there is just too many conflicting settings and personal preferences to deal with that no one knows how someone els'es computer works. Thus why I call it babysitting rather than just helping, because you can't sit behind their computer for everyone and make it work as good as that may be if you could. Sometimes people jsut have to learn a few things on thier own outside of the norm. Thus I present the most common fixes for things. Like most people don't even know there is a setting to disable the shell or browser extentions for things, or to set them to prompt for action, or don't want to be bother by being prompted then complain later when they aren't given a choice......There are just too many people that want their cake and to eat it to without having to do any work for it. I prompt for all cookies. It is annoying, but I avoid ones that are not needed BY ME.

So the end results is the DDI method is not the best or even good, it is bordering on banking security for information that is not something that eneds to be that secure and detracting from the use and purchase of the product. DDI is filled with those bad decisions, but this one is just a struggle with futility since it is causing so many problems, then need to follow the proper computer methods like KISS.

 

[Ogrork the Mighty]

Thanks all! I've adjusted my Firefox browser to give me the option to open or download. Much better now. The other trick also works, which was kinda neat.