Here's the response i got to my complaint. Excuse me; I use ssl on plenty of sites with no problem; wrote back and told him so. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 11:37:32 -0400 From: Peter Scialli <sscialli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: Peter Scialli <Peter at benetech.org> To: Cheryl Homiak <chomiak at chartermi.net> Subject: Re: Tried to download a book at bookshare.org Hi, Bookshare is, in fact, accessible by Linux users. You must either be using the SSL version of Lynx or have Http-Refer enabled in your Lynx configuration. These security measures are requirements of our copyright agreement with the publishers so that plain text browsers that do not have security enabled cannot gain access to the download authorizations. Bookshare.org does, in fact, have a clearly stated 45 day money back gurantee, so if you should decide to join, your money can be refunded in full during that period. In the meantime, I suggest you try to use your security enabled browser on the public domain content which does not require a membership. Thank you. Peter M. Scialli, Ph.D. Associate, Technical Projects, Bookshare.org www.bookshare.org A Project of The Benetech Initiative-Technology Serving Humanity peter @benetech.org www.benetech.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cheryl Homiak" <chomiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <webmaster at bookshare.org> Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 10:45 AM Subject: Tried to download a book at bookshare.org > Hello. > I am using linux and lynx. > I just tried to download "the story of My Life" by Helen Keller in Ascii text. > Didn't do anything 'unusual"; just followed the links. nks. Got > the following filename suggestion when I used the > "d" for download in lynx: > Error.html?errorid=-1001&page=Download.html&line=34 > > So I just tried hitting enter on the link for the Ascii text file. Here's what I > got: > > web error -1001 > > The most likely cause of this error is typing in the URL or bookmarking a page > that must be navigated to in a controlled manner. > While it is usually allowable to type in or bookmark a URL, some pages are > protected to avoid displaying incorrect information on the page. > > This error occurred in Page Download.html. > This error occurred on line 34. > If you're seeing this page, then either your actions were unexpected by the > website or there was an internal website error. Please review your last few > actions to see if there was something unusual, and report the problem to > webmaster at bookshare.org. > > > > > > >
