100W bulbs. What was all the fuss?

I did consider a few attacks... there is the possibility it caches the PDF locally somewhere - might be worth a sniff with sysinternals filemon. The format of the link in the html gives some clue for viewing, but not having seen one for download makes it more tricky.

Yes, that sounds like a worthwhile investigation ;-)

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John Rumm
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On Monday 18 November 2013 10:14 John Rumm wrote in uk.d-i-y:

The BSI websites does not adhere to common standards then. That is ironic!

And more importantly, I presume it means linux clients cannot access the site?

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Tim Watts

Well, it doesn't object to hooky certificates, but their "PDFviewer" just downloads pre-rendered jpgs page by page :-(

e.g. for BS 695, the main page is

The rendered images are

2.jpg etc
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Andy Burns

Actually that's not right, the pages are rendered in xaml, with included jpgs where necessary ...

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Andy Burns

Or by extension Android, and possibly IOS devices either. It would be interesting to know what compatibility with screen readers is as well.

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John Rumm

I can try it out if access is for anyone. How?

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Bob Eager

If you have a library card, then go to your local library page (possibly on your council's web site), and see if you can find the entry point. The Essex one is here:

formatting link

(universities typically have access as well)

Once you have given it a valid library card number it redirects you to:

formatting link

but already logged in. You can then search for a BS with its number etc. In the past you would retrieve docs as a PDF which made it possible to retain a copy, and also view full screen etc.

Now it needs silverlight installed and throws you into a fixed window sized viewer which gets each page as you view it for the first time - so its not really conducing to paging through a doc in a hurry, and is rather like painting your hall through the letterbox!

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John Rumm

I did some PSMon snooping on the file activity with firefox. It looks like each of the XML pages are recovered from the https stream by ff and then written to a cache file prior to being rendered by silverlight (run in FF's plugin_container process)

So it does not appear as if anything resembling the original PDF makes it as far as the client when viewing. You get stuff like (see end):

So the only presentable version is the onscreen representation, which can only be processed in small sections by on-screen OCR / image capture etc.

Looks like we need to see what a the URI will look like for a download...

example cache file content:

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John Rumm

Think on a bit of a group effort to make some tech support requests might be interesting:

snipped-for-privacy@bsigroup.com

It would be interesting to know the answers to questions like:

How can I view docs on my iPad / Tablet / Phone etc?

Same on Linux...

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John Rumm

Yes, that's the XAML

formatting link

I got carried away because page1 is principaly a large image occupying the whole page.

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Andy Burns

250W - 1000W for most single-ended high pressure discharge lamps, and 300W and 500W GLS filament (not sure if there was a 1kW version).

I have a few E40 lamps knocking around...

500W GLS filament, 250W high pressure sodium, 400W mercury vapour.
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Andrew Gabriel

I can link these lamps with my first experience of live folk music, way back in 1965.

Barnsley had just built a shiny new YMCA, complete with a nice big stage, which had been booked for a concert before the stage had any fittings whatsoever. I was around because I was into Hospital Broadcasting, and Radio Barnsley was based there.

With a mate we were tasked with getting some lighting working. The best we could manage was a length of festoon lighting cable with as many 500 W GLS lamps as we dared screw into it, and a backdrop of games netting to make it look a little less bare.

I found myself a perch in the flies, and watched proceedings.

Dave Burland was MC, and as far as I can remember, the guests included the McPeake Family and Pete Sayers.

Chris

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Chris J Dixon

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