[vox-tech] browser and mimetypes (I think)

[Ryan]

On Sunday 08 May 2005 07:56 am, p-at-dirac.org (Peter Jay Salzman) |lugod| 
wrote:
> There's an URL to a pdf download of an article published by Optics Letters.
> I don't think anyone can access this because I'm using a Princeton
> University proxy (and Princeton has a subscription to this journal), but
> the URL is:
>
>    http://ol.osa.org/ViewMedia.cfm?id=68550&seq=0
>
> It doesn't look like a pdf.  I tried and tried to get the pdf to download
> and display on Firefox on Linux.  I think perhaps it downloads OK but
> Firefox doesn't know what to do with it, since it's a "cfm" file, whatever
> that is, not a pdf file.

Did you try downloading it, then opening it with a PDF viewer?

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