Roel Wuyts <roel.wuyts at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
> Done! StarBrowser can be installed from SqueakMap again.
> 
> While I admit it was pretty stupid from me to not go and actually look 
> at the file, I am wondering whether the process cannot be improved a 
> little:
> (1) it is strange that the error file has exactly the same name, 
> leading to this kind of problem. Maybe calling it starbrowser.sar-error 
> could give a better indication
The error is simply the reply you get from the server when you send it
the wrong url.

> (2) maybe it is possible to just display the error, which is also done 
> when the network is unavailable.
You'd need to parse the HTML for the error. Shouldn't be very hard, and
would be a pretty useful thing to know how to distinguish.
 
> (You that I should know by now to not do this kind of thing early in 
> the morning, but alas... )
:-)

> On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 07:54 AM, Ned Konz wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday 20 November 2002 04:48 pm, Roel Wuyts wrote:
> >> Hello guys,
> >>
> >> like you could read I just finished a second version of the
> >> StarBrowser. I put it on my webpage, and updated the Squeakmap
> >> information. However, something strange is going on (not directly
> >> related to Squeakmap): allthough the file is around 22 kb,
> >> downloading it through the Squeakmap 'download' option results in a
> >> file of only 4 kb on my machine ?! I can download just fine from my
> >> machine in a webbrowser. Can other people that are interested
> >> please try to get it via the Package Loader and tell me whether you
> >> succeed? Thanks.
> >
> > If you look at the downloaded information, you will see that it is the
> > text of a "404" error message. You need to change the name of the
> > download file on SqueakMap to:
> >
> > http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~wuyts/StarBrowser/Squeak/starbrowser2.sar
> >
> > It's registered (incorrectly) as:
> > http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~wuyts/StarBrowser/squeak/starbrowser2.sar
> >
> > Notice the case difference in "Squeak".
> >
> > -- 
> > Ned Konz
> > http://bike-nomad.com
> > GPG key ID: BEEA7EFE
> >
> >
> Roel Wuyts                                                   Software 
> Composition Group
> roel.wuyts at iam.unibe.ch                       University of Bern, 
> Switzerland
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