Re: Error 404 on attachments

[Patrick or Cynthia Karl]

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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 11:51:06 +0100
> From: Peter Toye <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Error 404 on attachments
> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
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> I'm getting Error 404 whenever I click on the URL for an attachment. Am I 
> doing something wrong?
> 
> An example is:
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/attachments/20130513/318d5cfd/attachment.png
> 
> Happens on both Firefox and IE9.

No, you're not doing anything wrong.  The problem is that the URLs in at least 
the digest are just incorrect.  There is not even an attachments subdirectory 
in lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user, much less the subdirectories 
20130513 31835cfd.  I have enquired about this previously.  Apparently, most of 
the readers of the lilypond-user emails get them in a form that doesn't have 
this problem, so nobody is much interested in fixing the problem.

The way I deal with this problem requires that I know the subject and date of 
the email containing the broken URL.  Since I don't know the subject of your 
URL (above), I will illustrate my procedure with another email, namely one that 
appeared yesterday in lilypond-user Digest, Vol 126, Issue 93.  It is Message 4 
from Wim van Dommelen with the subject:  Re: an easier way to create the midi 
block.  At the end of this message is the following information:

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        Name: flute.ly
        Type: application/octet-stream
        Size: 1198 bytes
        Desc: not available
        URL: 
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/attachments/20130515/62cea622/attachment.obj>

I will find that attachment, which is apparently called "flute.ly".

step 1:  Browse to /lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user.  There you will 
see a guide to all of the lilypond user email forever:

        • 2013-05:  [Date]  [Thread]
        • 2013-04:  [Date]  [Thread]
        • 2013-03:  [Date]  [Thread]
        • 
        
step 2:  click on [Thread] for the month of the message I'm interested, in this 
case the one of the first line, 2013-05

step 3:  This yields a list of all the emails in May, 2013, arranged by thread 
with the threads sorted on the subject; in this case we are interested in "Re: 
an easier way to create the midi block".  It turns out that this thread was 
started in April, so the initial message in the thread is not in the threads 
for May, 2013.  So I go down the list of threads until I find "Re: an easier 
way to create the midi block".  (If the initial message had been in May, this 
thread would have been listed under "an easier way to create the midi block".)  
The messages within the threads are sorted by date, so I look for a message by 
Wim van Dommelen on May 14:

                        • Re: an easier way to create the midi block, Wim van 
Dommelen, 2013/05/15

This is a link to the actual archived message.

step 4:  Click on that link.  In that message we find a link, flute.ly.

step 5:  Click on the "flute.ly" link and there it is.



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> Regards,
> 
> Peter
> mailto:address@hidden
> www.ptoye.com
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