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Old March 22nd 11, 03:52 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Andy[_1_]
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Default OLC download limit

On Mar 22, 7:58*am, Max Kellermann wrote:
Mike wrote:
I once asked this of OLC, and was told they knew of no limit-this
was two years ago of so.


http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0....html?url=Term....

*"The User shall be regularly permitted to retrieve up to ten analysis
*files per calendar day (such amount hereinafter referred to as
*"Reasonable Use"). Upon exceeding this limit, any further retrieval
*of analysis files will be prevented for the remainder of the calendar
*day. Further restrictions may be imposed if the stipulated limit is
*repeatedly exceeded"

This rule is obviously evil, but not new.


If the download limit is 10 per day then either there is an
incompatibilty with Firefox, or a bug in the way the download count is
implemented.

I selected a flight log, then selected IGC (download), saved that
file, then attempted to use browser "back" function to go back the 2
pages required to select another flght log for the day. "Back" kept
returning me to the download management window where I repeatedly hit
cancel/back before I gave up and started a new session with OLC.

It seems that all the attempts to get past the download management
screen were counted as downloads even though I downloaded nothing.

(by download management screen I mean the window that offers the
choice of opening or saving the file)

So how do I select another flight after having downloaded an IGC file?

Andy