faulty web design: workaround ?

[Ivan Avery Frey]

G. Matthew Rice wrote:

> 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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