Re: It's COBOL, Jim, but not as we know it...
- From: "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 13:46:37 +1300
Robert wrote:
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 11:31:42 +1300, "Pete Dashwood"
<dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Here's what SHOULD happen:
1. You click the link in the newsgroup message.(ONLY ONCE... don't
double click it...)
2. The logon page opens, followed a few seconds later by the cobdata
page opening in the background. (You should maximize the login page
if it isn't already.)
3. You login or register. It succeeds. You click "Resume" and the
standard download dialog for the ZIP file appears.
4. You download. Close the page. The standard cobdata page remains.
(since Sunday, there have been 7 successful downloads.)
Here's what CAN happen:
1. Both the login and COBDATA main page appear simultaneously. This
has to do with browser delay and/or server workload. If it happened,
it shouldn't happen consistently. Everything will still work, but it
could be confusing to a user.
2. The login page may be minimized and all you see is the COBDATA
main page. This has to do with Browser settings or tabs if you are
using a tabbed browser.
3. The COBDATA page is obscuring the login page. Minimize the
COBDATA page and it should reveal the login page.
4. Your Firefox browser blocks the login page as a pop-up. That's
what happened to me. I told it to stop blocking pop-ups for this site.
Damn! I took special care to make sure the thing works in Firefox (even
identifying and installing the Firefox add-in needed to support ActiveX/COM
into my updated Firefox browser...) but I never thought about popups...
: - )
Thanks Robert.
BTW, there is still a known problem with getting the site to mail a
forgotten password. I can't see a problem with the C# code behind and it
works correctly on my IIS server. It is to do with mail security at the
server farm where the cobdata server is hosted. I'm currently trying to get
them to look at it.
Meanwhile, if anyone has a problem with a lost or forgotten password, please
just register a new account. (If you only have one email address, add an x
to the front of it and register that.) That way I can tie it back to your
original and clean things up once the password problem is resolved.)
Pete.
--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."
.
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