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PathOfNeo
PathOfNeo

Reputation: 1089

Why can't any browser understand this link? (exept firefox)

Hy people. I'm working on my webapp for the iphone. On some point you have the option to get a particular document from our appserver. It works on firefox, but safari just shows an empty download window. IE also can't get the file.

Below is the example link.

Is there something wrong with a link of this kind that Safari can't see?

http://192.168.200.32:9999/USER_STORAGE?user=bt&token=bEVfjg%2FGHoHHU2CxmAWyiTXFUgN9kN2o8pEKgCFV5Fw%3D&nonce=9jJgj4qGXB4U7m%2FJXjjsmbfreH2J2nT8D789jHY6zro%3D&parent_session=cjDEN3PvltsAqjiagynS8mN6HKeAgqWv82WJqxWiXD8%3D&method=download&filename=Testdokument2

Upvotes: 1

Views: 222

Answers (1)

T.J. Crowder
T.J. Crowder

Reputation: 1074355

The W3 validator points out that you need to escape those ampersands. We mostly get away not escaping them, but who knows, maybe that's the issue. So:

http://192.168.200.32:9999/USER_STORAGE?user=bt&token=bEVfjg%2FGHoHHU2CxmAWyiTXFUgN9kN2o8pEKgCFV5Fw%3D&nonce=9jJgj4qGXB4U7m%2FJXjjsmbfreH2J2nT8D789jHY6zro%3D&parent_session=cjDEN3PvltsAqjiagynS8mN6HKeAgqWv82WJqxWiXD8%3D&method=download&filename=Testdokument2

..although I tested those params unescaped and they worked fine on IE7, IE8, Chrome4, Safari4, and Firefox3.6 on Windows. (See test page below)

If that's not it:

  • Are you testing it by navigating to that point in the desired browser, rather than copy-and-paste? (E.g., does the session mechanism rely on a cookie, or disregard attempts from a different user agent, or...?)
  • If there are cookies involved, does this link use a different port from the response that set the cookie?

My unescaped test page, worked as expected despite being invalid:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
<title>Test Page</title>
<style type='text/css'>
body {
    font-family: sans-serif;
}
</style>
</head>
<body><div>
<a href='showparams.jsp?user=bt&token=bEVfjg%2FGHoHHU2CxmAWyiTXFUgN9kN2o8pEKgCFV5Fw%3D&nonce=9jJgj4qGXB4U7m%2FJXjjsmbfreH2J2nT8D789jHY6zro%3D&parent_session=cjDEN3PvltsAqjiagynS8mN6HKeAgqWv82WJqxWiXD8%3D&method=download&filename=Testdokument2' target='_blank'>the link</a>
</div></body>
</html>

Escaped test page, also worked as expected:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
<title>Test Page</title>
<style type='text/css'>
body {
   font-family: sans-serif;
}
</style>
</head>
<body><div>
<a href='showparams.jsp?user=bt&amp;token=bEVfjg%2FGHoHHU2CxmAWyiTXFUgN9kN2o8pEKgCFV5Fw%3D&amp;nonce=9jJgj4qGXB4U7m%2FJXjjsmbfreH2J2nT8D789jHY6zro%3D&amp;parent_session=cjDEN3PvltsAqjiagynS8mN6HKeAgqWv82WJqxWiXD8%3D&amp;method=download&amp;filename=Testdokument2' target='_blank'>the link</a>
</div></body>
</html>

Upvotes: 2

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