Have your pastebin *not* create random names containing dots

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Yes, seriously :slight_smile:

OK, so this has to be about the lowest of the lowest of low priorities, but if someone’s bored for 5 minutes it would possibly benefit from being fixed.

The random names created in the OSMC pastebin can sometimes look like a filename with an extension. For example, I recently clicked on a link in a “Help & Support” post and “Chrome” (yes, this may be browser specific …) downloaded what it thought was a “.tex” file rather than opening the actual page. Then, of course, Windows didn’t know what to do with it (not being familiar with TeX or LaTeX files :slight_smile:). If there are no periods in the names generated then even Windows won’t be able to get confuuuuuused about it …

Keep up the most excellent work folks! :slight_smile:

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Can’t say I have ever seen this happen, and I have read a lot of paste.osmc.io log files…

A browser should be using the mime-type of the page not the “file extension” when deciding what to do with it. This is standard http/html practice. The mime type is always the same for pasted log files.

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Which browser are you using?

I believe our Pastebin sends everything as text/plain (MIME) so your browser shouldn’t get confused.

Resolving paste.osmc.io (paste.osmc.io)... 159.253.212.250
Connecting to paste.osmc.io (paste.osmc.io)|159.253.212.250|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  content-type: text/plain
  Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:19:06 GMT
  Connection: close
  Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Length: unspecified [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘/dev/null’

    [ <=>                                   ] 1,033       --.-K/s   in 0s

Sam

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Gentlemen, yes, I’d entirely agree with both of you (though actually it might be the MIME type which is triggering the problem).

However, out of interest, what do your browsers make of this: http://paste.osmc.io/yurujapewi.tex - that was the one which did (and does) confuse “Chrome” on my PC.

Of course, YMMV :slight_smile:

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Thats the one i was looking for.

I use chrome and it downloads the file instead of opening the page.

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A) Thanks @CaNsA, for confirming I’m not going completely mad :slight_smile:
B) Yes, I had a bit of trouble finding it - I was searching my history and it wasn’t there. Then I realised it wasn’t in my page history because “Chrome” thought it was a download, and that’s where (eventually!) I found it :slight_smile:

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Yeah, stumbled upon that exact paste a few days ago… :sweat_smile:

Opera 36 and Firefox 45.0.1 ‘think’ that there’s a .tex-file that needs to be downloaded, IE11 simply shows the paste instead…

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Good grief - you’re telling me there’s something Internet Exploder does right? Wow - made my day :slight_smile:

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Firefox misbehaves too with .tex, but I do have Texmaker on this system.

I’m sure @marktheis can make sure the extension is always .txt.

Sam

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