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Re: 20010530: zip download link not working in IE

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  • Subject: Re: 20010530: zip download link not working in IE
  • Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 15:17:28 -0600
>To: <address@hidden>
>From: "Christopher Hash" <address@hidden>
>Subject: zip download link not working in IE
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200105301934.f4UJYsp12215

Hi Christopher,

> The FTP zip file download link on page:
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/
> is not working in IE5.  I see a netcdf.ZIP file which is 16K on the ftp
> site.  When I click on the link:
> ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf.zip I get an error message in
> IE5.  If i go to that FTP directory in IE5, i can click on the netcdf.ZIP
> file which seems to be a symlink, and it downloads ok.  The link for the
> tar.gz file works fine.

Thanks for reporting the problem, which was the use of ".zip" instead
of ".ZIP" in the URL.  It's fixed now.

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu