faulty web design: workaround ?

[Peter]

On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Ivan Avery Frey wrote:

> 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.

Thanks for reposting that.

Yes, I can read the source too, but is there a workaround that works 
around the workaround around the broken broswer ? Someting like 
Hubinette's plugger.so, but a version that does not crash ff ?

Peter
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