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Anonymous
September 26, 2009
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Application Octet Stream

  • September 26, 2009
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Why, when I click on a Last Post link on a forum page, do I sometimes get a request to launch an Application Octet Stream from adobe?

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    Jochem van Dieten
    Inspiring
    October 1, 2009

    I managed to reproduce the problem and it is indeed a problem decoding the content. The root cause appears to be on the server side and Adobe has opened a case with Jive.

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    Anonymous
    October 1, 2009

    I didn't want to start a new thread but this is a new twist on the theme.

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    Jochem van Dieten
    Inspiring
    October 1, 2009

    Thanks, that one really helps rule out some of the suspects.

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    Anonymous
    September 29, 2009

    Thanks I'll see if I can get it that way. I do move around pretty fast and I'm loading the next forum before the previous one has finished.


    But that's jivespeed!

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    Anonymous
    September 29, 2009

    John, I've had this "octet stream" issue too, although I don't recall whether it occurred specifically on the Forums or not, but it was certainly almost all other websites. Extremely irritating.

    It started with FF 3.5.2 (I'm on XP), in early August.  I'm now at 3.5.3.  I hadn't changed mouse drivers or done anything that would impact the mouse; I changed batteries, etc, etc. Mouse clicks worked perfectly in every other application.

    I finally figured out that it is related to the speed of mouse clicks when one clicks on a link -- if my finger action for the mouse click is too fast, it gets the octet stream. If I slow down how fast I do the click, the link works perfectly. I tried changing the "mouse click speed" in the mouse driver, but that didn't seem to make any difference. I guess my "finger-hits-mouse-click-speed" has learned to go slow enough now, as the problem stopped a month or so ago.

    Sheila

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    Jochem van Dieten
    Inspiring
    September 26, 2009

    John Joslin wrote on 9/26/2009 11:44 AM:

    Why, when I click on a Last Post link on a forum page, do I sometimes get a request to launch an Application Octet Stream from adobe?

    Presumably because there is a problem decoding the compressed content.

    It would help if you could extract the HTTP headers from your browser to

    see whether it is a client side problem or a server side problem.

    Phillip M Jones
    Phillip M Jones
    Inspiring
    September 26, 2009

    For new Macintosh users and PC people that receive notices from friends, colleagues, others, that they received this notice when opening a file.

    Its the Macintosh OSX way of saying: "I don't know what the heck this file is". There is no application utility, or process than can open or run the file. almost always it either a PC type (such as exe which a Mac is not allowed to run) file or the encoding has been screwed up on the server that sent it or , it was received from.

    I'm sure there is an equally obtuse notice for files that PC don't handle, including Mactosh only file type.

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    Jochem van Dieten
    Inspiring
    September 26, 2009

    Phillip Jones wrote on 9/26/2009 8:20 PM:

    Its The Macintosh OSX way of saying: "I don't know what the heck this file is".

    No it isn't. See RFC 2616 section 19 for its exact meaning.

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