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    From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to August Abolins on Sun Nov 8 19:44:46 2020
    Re: strange things, {at}synchronet sites
    By: August Abolins to All on Sun Nov 08 2020 05:14 am

    ..and click on File Libraries, Chrome and Firefox want to dwonload the 00index.html files instead of opening them in the browser. Why would that be happening?

    Modern browsers will no longer render (display) files they download via FTP: https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/6199005675520000
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  • From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to Alan Ianson on Sun Nov 8 19:47:48 2020
    Re: strange things, {at}synchronet sites
    By: Alan Ianson to August Abolins on Sun Nov 08 2020 04:55 pm

    Hmm.. curious. I don't have chrome installed but it seems to work for me here and also at vert.synchro.net with firefox.

    The current version of FireFox will not render (display) files downloaded via FTP:
    https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/03/23/firefox-is-dropping-ftp-support/

    You can still download files, but those 00index.html files won't be useful to use. Just click the files and folders like you would any other FTP server and that should work fien.
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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757.2 to August Abolins on Sun Nov 8 21:45:16 2020
    Re: strange things, {at}synchronet sites
    By: August Abolins to Alan Ianson on Mon Nov 09 2020 05:31 am

    Revisiting trmb.ca, when I hover over the "File Libraries", it just shows "ftp://trmb.ca" ..and never loads anything.

    There is only one file area at trmb.ca right now. I'll get that fixed up soonish. I have to take it offline for a time and work on another issue not BBS related. Hopefully I'll have it up and running smoothly in a week or two.

    The link is the same thing at vert, but after what seems like a long time, ultimately the 00index.html content loads. But some of the navigation to other pages seems broken and fails.

    I think most browsers have dropped or will drop support for loading html from ftp sites.

    Also, sometimes when I click on [Message Groups], I get this:


    /* $Id: index.ssjs,v 1.10 2006/02/25 21:41:08 runemaster Exp $ */

    load("../web/lib/msgslib.ssjs");

    template.title="Message Groups on " +system.name;

    if(do_header)
    write_template("header.inc");
    if(do_topnav)
    load(topnav_html);
    if(do_leftnav)
    load(leftnav_html);
    if(do_rightnav)
    write_template("rightnav.inc");

    template.groups=msg_area.grp_list;

    ETC..

    I've seen that happen too from time to time but I'm not sure why.

    FYI, I am doing this from my replacement laptop: Win7, Firefox 82.0.2 64bit.

    My firefox on slackware is 68.?.?. I suspect as we move up in versions I'll be having trouble with ftp also but haven't noticed yet.

    I'm thinking of using webv4 with Synchronet. That'll solve any ftp issues since it uses all http rather than ftp. ftp should still work I think, just no 00index.html support in most browsers.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757.2 to Rob Swindell on Sun Nov 8 21:48:32 2020
    Re: strange things, {at}synchronet sites
    By: Rob Swindell to Alan Ianson on Sun Nov 08 2020 07:47 pm

    You can still download files, but those 00index.html files won't be useful to use. Just click the files and folders like you would any other FTP server and that should work fien.

    Good to know ftp will still work even if the 00index.html won't.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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