faulty web design: workaround ?

[G. Matthew Rice]

Peter <plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org> writes:
> I have a firefox problem on Linux. The uspto has patent drawings in
> tiff. When accessing them with firefox I get a missing plugin for mime
> text/tiff. But I do not need one, as tiff is rendered natively and/or in
> display. So the kludge implemented by the uspto website to accomodate a
> broken browser, so it can display tiff, actually breaks an unbroken browser
> (firefox) and prevents it from displaying content which it could
> display. Does anyone have a workaround ?
> 
> http://patimg1.uspto.gov/.piw?docid=US005067932&SectionNum=2&IDKey=188CFF095B73&HomeUrl=http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1%2526Sect2=HITOFF%2526d=PALL%2526p=1%2526u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm%2526r=1%2526f=G%2526l=50%2526s1=5,067,932.WKU.%2526OS=PN/5,067,932%2526RS=PN/5,067,932

I was able to take the:

     <embed
     src="/.DImg?Docid=US005067932&PageNum=2&IDKey=188CFF095B73&ImgFormat=tif"
     width="570" height="840" type=image/tiff></embed>

from the source, cut'n'paste the 'src' part to get:

     http://patimg1.uspto.gov/.DImg?Docid=US005067932&PageNum=2&IDKey=188CFF095B73&ImgFormat=tif

and was able to download it.  In firefox, I just clicked 'open' in the
download manager and it opened fine.

HTH,
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