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by eon1 3386 days ago
This link leads to an HTML full of garbage data that automatically downloads for me. What am I missing?
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NTripleOne 3386 days ago
This is old so I guess it was probably a momentary problem for me, but it works fine in Vivaldi 1.8.770.25 on Windows for me.
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khedoros1 3386 days ago
Yep, it worked fine when I got home, a few hours later. There was a while where it was "wonky".

The header looked fine, the body started like this: <body>^_<8b>^H^C¥XÛrÛ8^R}¶¾¢<87>^OñLE"}M%^N­]¯¥x<q¢<94>í©­ÔÖÖ^Vdb$Ê$Á^E@Ë<9a><9a><87>ù<88>ýÂý<92>= r7;<89>3µ~<90>%^BÝèËéÓ="" Æ?<8c>&ç·<9f>?<8d>)we1ìÅü<

Oddly, there was random entified data in there: &nbsp;^V[^P¿8û0þpöé&amp;&lt;

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NTripleOne 3385 days ago
That's... absolutely bizarre, I've never seen anything like that before. Garbled characters, but the hex in chevrons I've never seen, that combined with an intact body and html entities too...

I guess the server sharted and that was the result? Haha.

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khedoros1 3385 days ago
The hex is just the way that the editor chose to display it. I think it's just random-seeming binary data.
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khedoros1 3386 days ago
It does that if I try to visit it in Pale Moon or Chrome on Windows, but loaded just fine in Firefox on my phone.
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netinstructions 3386 days ago
Same. I was using Chrome on Windows
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