Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: LibreOffice: Dubious download behavior LO on Windows/IE ?

I am running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Firefox 3.6.23.  I clicked on the link 
listed below for testing.  It took less than 5 seconds to load up.  I 
had FF already running.  I clicked on the link, FF briefly came to the 
front and then the Thunderbird "window" came back to the front of FF.  I 
quickly click on the FF "tab" on the panel on the bottom of the screen 
and I saw that the download dialog box was asking me what I wanted to 
do; "save" or "open it" with the default archive manager.

Just did it again and the dialog still popped up within 2 or 3 seconds.  
All I did was click on the link and then clicked on the FF tab on the 
panel to bring it forward to the top of all the open "windows" on my 
desktop.

So it looks line it could be IE8 and IE9 that is causing the problems, 
or maybe with the addition of Vista 32 bit.  I noticed that IE7 and then 
IE8 sometimes took a long 10 to 30 count before the dialog comes up to 
ask me if I wanted to download/save it or to download/open it.  I once 
saw it take several minutes to come up with the download dialog.

I wonder if there is something with the web page server that has some 
"strange" slow way to do the "hand shaking" with the browser's protocols 
for "viewing" non-HTML file and deciding what to do with that file/mime 
type.  Does it try to open it for display [think .txt file], display it 
like an image file and decide if it needs to be displayed in a reduced 
size, play it like a audio or video file, or when all the options are 
looked at and none are the proper response to the file/mime type, it 
then has no other option but to ask if you want to download and save it 
to your local file system, or run it in the application that your 
browser and OS determines the proper/default package to run the 
file/mime type with.

I wonder it the web page server for the Supportex mirror is having 
trouble "talking to" IE about what is to be done with the mime type of 
".exe".  It has to be, in my opinion, that there are issues with that 
web page server and its communication with IE.  Firefox does not have 
that problem, or at least FF 3.6.23 running on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

To test the link with IE, I would have to put an XP [32-bit] computer 
back together [working on fixing/upgrading it] or wait for my Vista 
[32-bit] laptop to be returned from a quick loan.  I do not like Windows 
anymore, so I use Linux on as many computers as I can, but need to keep 
a Windows computer for Windows-only USB devices and needed software that 
only has Windows version [like special software that sets up and prints 
CD/DVD media.

But, at least you know that a different browser and OS combination did 
not have that problem.
.
On 10/29/2011 07:42 PM, Spiff wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
>
> Last August, Cor Nouws was so kind as to post my contribution in regard to
> 'dubious download behavior' with downloading LibreOffice from the
> LibreOffice download page.
> See Cor's August 14 post "LibreOffice: Dubious download behavior LO on
> Windows/IE ?"
> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-Dubious-download-behavior-LO-on-Windows-IE-td3252634.html
> http://www.mail-archive.com/website@global.libreoffice.org/msg05831.html
>
> Recently, things are getting much clearer.
>
> For the Netherlands, there are two LibreOffice download mirrors, the
> ftp.nluug.nl mirror and the mirrors.supportex.net mirror.
> The NLUUG mirror works just excellent (as do all other European and World
> mirrors that I tried), but not(!) the Supportex mirror.
>
> When http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ redirects the Dutch user not to
> the NLUUG mirror but to the Supportex mirror, or when the Supportex mirror
> is chosen from the mirrorlist page (via "Get details (md5sum,...)"), a very
> peculiar download behavior occurs. It then takes a long(!) time till finally
> the Internet Explorer download manager popup window ('Run/Save/Cancel')
> appears, offering the download.
> First I thought the download wasn't offered at all (while nevertheless there
> was all kind of network, anti-virus, HDD and CPU action), but recently I
> found out that when you wait a long(!) time the download is finally offered
> with the IE download manager to pop up.
> The LibreOffice download from the Supportex mirror is the only(!) download I
> ever encountered that shows that strange kind of download behavior.
> You can try it for yourself, using this download link:
> http://mirrors.supportex.net/tdf/libreoffice/stable/3.4.3/win/x86/LibO_3.4.3_Win_x86_install_multi.exe
> I use Windows Vista Ultimate SP2 32 bit (Dutch) with Internet Explorer
> (first IE8, now IE9) (Dutch).
> I don't know whether browser and OS are of relevance in this issue.
>
> Can you reproduce any abnormal download behavior with the
> mirrors.supportex.net download, taking it a long time for the IE download
> manager popup window to appear?
>
> What can be the case with the Supportex mirror?
>
> Can the LibreOffice admins contact Supportex in this matter?
>
>
>
> Thanks very much
> and best regards,
>
> Spiff
>
>
>
>
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