* [9fans] Abaco's Plumbing
@ 2010-01-15 2:37 Akshat Kumar
2010-01-15 2:55 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-01-15 2:56 ` erik quanstrom
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Akshat Kumar @ 2010-01-15 2:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
In trying to access some papers in PDF,
locked up by secure login and what not
over the web two point oh-no, I was stuck
at the actual "access the paper" part.
After login, there is a link to a page that
forwards to the URL of the PDF. In order
to access, you need some cookies that
show you've logged in, etc.. So when I
open the link which forwards to the paper,
abaco tries to open the PDF link and gives
mime-type unsupported, of course.
Now, if I try to highlight and right-click that
link to open it in page(1), it doesn't appear,
because you can't just go directly to the link.
Sadly hget(1) doesn't do cookies so I can't
use the session to grab the paper without
abaco.
So, the only thing that I think could work
would be to have abaco plumb *.pdf as soon
as it gets the URL, instead of trying to show
it and ending up with mime-type unsupported.
Best,
ak
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* Re: [9fans] Abaco's Plumbing
2010-01-15 2:37 [9fans] Abaco's Plumbing Akshat Kumar
@ 2010-01-15 2:55 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-01-15 2:56 ` erik quanstrom
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Federico G. Benavento @ 2010-01-15 2:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
hget does cookies, but it needs webcookies (hget, not abaco)
you can also use webfsget, which should just work
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Akshat Kumar
<akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net> wrote:
> In trying to access some papers in PDF,
> locked up by secure login and what not
> over the web two point oh-no, I was stuck
> at the actual "access the paper" part.
>
> After login, there is a link to a page that
> forwards to the URL of the PDF. In order
> to access, you need some cookies that
> show you've logged in, etc.. So when I
> open the link which forwards to the paper,
> abaco tries to open the PDF link and gives
> mime-type unsupported, of course.
>
> Now, if I try to highlight and right-click that
> link to open it in page(1), it doesn't appear,
> because you can't just go directly to the link.
> Sadly hget(1) doesn't do cookies so I can't
> use the session to grab the paper without
> abaco.
>
> So, the only thing that I think could work
> would be to have abaco plumb *.pdf as soon
> as it gets the URL, instead of trying to show
> it and ending up with mime-type unsupported.
>
>
> Best,
> ak
>
>
--
Federico G. Benavento
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* Re: [9fans] Abaco's Plumbing
2010-01-15 2:37 [9fans] Abaco's Plumbing Akshat Kumar
2010-01-15 2:55 ` Federico G. Benavento
@ 2010-01-15 2:56 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-15 3:12 ` Akshat Kumar
1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: erik quanstrom @ 2010-01-15 2:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> So, the only thing that I think could work
> would be to have abaco plumb *.pdf as soon
> as it gets the URL, instead of trying to show
> it and ending up with mime-type unsupported.
why can't you just use webfsget?
- erik
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