Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Brian Horrocks


 * Comment. Is there any way to fix the links to the London Gazette?  I click on them and all of a sudden find Dreamweaver (yes, Dreamweaver) opening up with a bunch of gibberish.  I have no real idea why this is, but suspect it's something to do with PDF view.  Should it help, let me say that I'm using Firefox on a Mac. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 10:29, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmm. I see that this is a template, LondonGazette.  Still, it seems to be broken from where I'm sitting. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 10:38, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I tried a couple and they both seemed to work. Could your pdf viewer be the issue? Leithp 10:59, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * (ec) As I say, I think it's something to do with PDF view. Firefox (at least as I have it configured, and I know of no other way of configuring it) automatically downloads PDFs; this is different from (say) Safari, for which the PDF is viewed in the browser window itself. This does, however, seem a template issue, rather than an issue with the article itself. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 11:03, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * The template just generates the url - and some formatting of the reference for our purposes - the url is exactly what you would get if you went to the main gazette website (http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk) and manually searched for the relevant info. It's working fine for me (IE and windows).  It should indeed generate a pdf (and I think they're generated dynamically which may be part of the problem), but I've no idea why it's malfunctioning on your set-up.  Try one via the main website - using the search by issue number would probably be easiest, and see if you get the same problem that way. David Underdown (talk) 11:04, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * In fact, the same thing happens. Firefox downloads a file called ViewPDFContent.aspx, which my Mac seems to believe is a Dreamweaver document.  So the issue is rather with the website and/or my computer's configuration (though I've never seen this before with any other site, and I tend to access PDFs quite a lot).  Oh well.  The London Gazette will remain, it seems, a closed book to me. ;)  --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 11:10, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * If it's any consolation, you're not missing much. Gazette articles are generally not the most exciting reading material. Leithp 11:29, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm drying the tears from my eyes right now. ;) --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 11:38, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * It almost sounds like it's trying to edit the underlying aspx (which are server side fiels produced by ASP.NET), rather than recognising the mime type it's sending down as a pdf. David Underdown (talk) 11:44, 12 June 2008 (UTC)