Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Brian Horrocks

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• 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)