[NTLK] Receiving files in Einstein (In/Out Box and Newt's Cape)

[Tom]

On Friday, 7 November 2025 15:43:59 Greenwich Mean Time Greg Goodwin wrote:
> And then it fails.  Why can't Newt's Cape recognize "#" in a URL?

The '#' is just a marker for "load URL and then go here". It's often used by JavaScript these days, rather than the original purpose of automatically scrolling to a particular heading.
That's what the page is doing, and NewtScape can't run JavaScript so it just doesn't work.

> SECOND LINK I tried was https://dflund.se/~fernbom/music/mods/files/takeonme.zip 
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>      which it thought about for a good minutes like it was trying to download, and then... nothing.

I tried http://dflund.se/~fernbom/music/mods/files/takeonme.zip in a command line download tool (curl -v ...) and what it actually does is return a "Location" header that redirects to HTTPS, and a HTML page that does the same thing. 

You're modern browser hides this, which is why it looks like it works without HTTPS.

> BTW, I did try both "https://" and "http://".   And "http://" in this case was a bit more successful.

Without a proxy like FrogFind, WebOne etc to translate modern HTTPS to something NewtScape can cope with, you'll have to stick to HTTP-only URLs.
These are increasingly hard to find !

Looks like UNNA (which does work in NewtScape over HTTP), for instance only has mods-as-pkg, not raw .mod files :
http://www.unna.org/unna/sounds/mods/[1]

-- 
Tom
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[1] http://www.unna.org/unna/sounds/mods/