[KLUG Members] Valid URL won't work

[bill]

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 13:22, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> I've got a valid URL that I've copied from a page when it's open
> (www.fetzer.org/PDF/Fetzer_Programs.pdf) (Fetzer_Programs, with the
> underscore), yet when I try to access that page I get a failure ("The
> page cannot be found.").  I need to go to a parent page a click a link
> to reach this page.
> 
> Is this a fluke or is there something standard about certain kinds of
> pages that causes this?

It's common with serving pdf files that what looks like a directory
("PDF" above) is really a program.  The pdf files are often generated
and/or served on the fly and use some transaction variable
(GET/POST/COOKIE/SESSION) to tell the program which file to serve.  I'd
guess that some other information is carried over from the previous link
that is required to serve the file.  Because it doesn't have that
information it can't serve the file and so generates a 404 error ("file
not found").

kind regards,
bill