Re: Using DB to cache METARs ?

[Martin G. <gim...@gi...>]

Phil Pierotti <phi...@sw...> writes:

> Actually that was my first thought: bad URLs.
>
> So I checked the HTML source.
>   - All Good
> So I checked the path/subdirs on the web server.
>   - All Good

Okay, I just wanted to make that it wasn't some trivial mistake like
that...

> My preferred graphic viewer (irfanview 3.85) replies with
> 	{filename}: PNG Decode error !
> 	This is not a valid PNG File !
>
> Also neither FireBird 0.7+ nor MSIE 6 are able to display that local file.

Ahh... MSIE 6... you're using Windows!  That made a bell ring! :-)

The problem is that your client translates the newlines into
carrige-return newline --- Unix uses a plain newline, but Windows
likes to use carrige-return newline.  And of course one cannot just go
around changing binary files like that...

But it was really my mistake, I had forgot to use a -kb flag when I
commited the files.  That flag tells CVS that the file is binary, and
so it shouldn't mess with the newlines.

If anybody finds other binary files lacking this option, then let me
know.

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