Kat, have you tried to download a file from tripod lately? I have. They set it up so that any link to a file goes instead to a seperate page for the file you want to download. If you try to right-click and "save target as", you get an error. If you don't just assume that the link is broken and give up, you LEFT-click on the link. The link doesn't take you to the file, but to a NEW PAGE, which the creator of the site DID NOT CREATE!

On the second page, the one that tripod automatically inserts, you get another link, that says "click here for the file" or something like that.. if you try "save target as" you get an html page, NOT THE FILE. If you left-click, it will process the click for a few minutes, and then give you the file.

That's two pages it adds to the link. The site owner puts in code like [ a href="files/images.zip" ] but tripod will automatically intercept any request for a file and make it go through another page first.

Also, though a newsgroup, I just heard from one person that "the Tripod download thing also doesn't work in Opera :-| I have to resort to IE or Mozilla if I want to download stuff from Tripod..."

If her site is heavy on downloads, she does NOT want to host there!

See if you can download the suface zip files from this site: http://members.tripod.com/~nearworlds/tgsurface/

The url to the file, copied from the PAGE is http://members.tripod.com/~nearworlds/tgsurface/srf_all.zip

So why does it go to another page without letting me download it? Hmmm?

Supposedly they are doing it to "stop badwidth theft." but hello, running databases to create pages on the fly takes up their resources too!!! And it discourages people from getting the files, if they don't just assume that the links are BROKEN, that is.

This is why I dis-recommend tripod. Check it out for yourself.