[plug] govt website links - how?

[Gavin Chester]

On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 23:12 +0800, Kev wrote:
> Hi Gavin, I'm using Kubuntu Hoary, Firefox 1.0.2  and OOo 1.1.3.  The 
> URL you gave opened the site instantly, I downloaded several of the 
> available files (inc the "Job Kit") to my desktop without problem.  I 
> then clicked on the new desktop icons, in turn, and OOo opened each of 
> them up, no problems.  Is this what you were talking about?
> 
> Cheers
> Kev

Yeh, thanks.  I had no trouble opening the site, just the links did
nothing for me.  I tried both galeon and firefox - clicking the links
would pop up a "save file" dialogue but then when I chose to save
nothing happened.  If you are not having trouble then perhaps it's
settings on my system?  Maybe the mime handlers that I've got set?
While I understand setting my prefs to different handlers where to go to
tackle that setting so that it works is the question.

Big thanks to skribe who jumped right in and forwarded me the files
needed :-).

Seems it's not an anti-linux conspiracy afterall.

Gavin   

> 
> Gavin Chester wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >Trying to tackle an issue that I ignored before, but now I really want
> >to get to the bottom of it :-0
> >
> >It bugs me that the many govt websites that advertise jobs then seem to
> >make it impossible to access the info (JDFs, criteria, etc).
> >Specifically, some sites have JDFs only in MS.doc format, but others
> >don't even let me get that far because the links throw up a message to
> >save the file but then nothing happens after that.  Currently I'm
> >stumped again by links on this sort of page (the waaay long URL will
> >wrap):
> >http://wchs.health.wa.gov.au/careers/jobvacs/jobDetails.php?
> >PositionId=255538&ReqAppDate=2005-06-07&PHPSESSID=4afd038ced7b74ae3f56e6a592afc9ae
> >
> >My wife wants to see the selection criteria but I can't seem to help
> >her.  Anyone got some trick to accessing these links or is this an equal
> >opportunity issue where they're conspiring against Linux users?
> >
> >Gavin
> >
> >
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