[KLUG Members] Valid URL won't work

[Bruce Smith]

> The parent page is 
> http://www.fetzer.org/Programs.aspx?PageID=Programs&NavID=3&ProgramID=32
> 
> So if I make sense of this page, it confirms what Bill says.

No, unfortunately it confirmed what I was thinking but didn't say.
You screwed up the URL!!!   ;-)

You said it below:  www.fetzer.org/PDF/Fetzer_Programs.pdf
The URL is really:  www.fetzer.org/PDF/Fetzer_Program.pdf

Notice the word "Program" does NOT end in a "s" like you said.
The URL without the "s" works fine.

 - BS


> Does anyone know what the accepted way of referencing such a page in a
> scholarly publication might be? Does one have to reference the parent page
> and add instructions as to which link to click?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: members-bounces at kalamazoolinux.org
> [mailto:members-bounces at kalamazoolinux.org] On Behalf Of bill
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 1:29 PM
> To: The main KLUG mailing list.
> Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] Valid URL won't work
> 
> 
> 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